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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    1:10 pm
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    “My dear brother, I will not believe this of you
    “No, I am sure you are too goodYou will be kinder than Mary
    37
    Jane Austen
    You will allow for the doubts of youth and inexperienceI am of a
    cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry
    Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself
    I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those
    discreet lines of the poet—’Heaven’s last best giftGrant, you see how he dwells on one word, and
    only look at his smileI assure you he is very detestable; the Admiral’s
    lessons have quite spoiled him
    “I pay very little regard,” said MrsGrant, “to what any young
    person says on the subject of marriageIf they profess a disinclination
    for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right
    personGrant laughingly congratulated Miss Crawford on feeling no
    disinclination to the state herself
    “Oh yes! I am not at all ashamed of itI would have everybody
    marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw
    themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can
    do it to advantage
    38
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER V
    THE YOUNG PEOPLE were pleased with each other from the firstOn
    each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon
    promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrantMiss
    Crawford’s beauty did her no disservice with the Miss BertramsThey
    were too handsome themselves to dislike any woman for being so
    too, and were almost as much charmed as their brothers with her
    lively dark eye, clear brown complexion, and general prettinessHad
    she been tall, full formed, and fair, it might have been more of a trial:
    but as it was, there could be no comparison; and she was most allowably
    a sweet, pretty girl, while they were the finest young women in
    the country
    Her brother was not handsome: no, when they first saw him he
    was absolutely plain, black and plain; but still he was the gentleman,
    with a pleasing addressThe second meeting proved him not
    so very plain: he was plain, to be sure, but then he had so much
    countenance, and his teeth were so good, and he was so well made,
    that one soon forgot he was plain; and after a third interview, after
    dining in company with him at the Parsonage, he was no longer
    allowed to be called so by anybodyHe was, in fact, the most agreeable
    young man the sisters had ever known, and they were equally
    delighted with himMiss Bertram’s engagement made him in equity
    the property of Julia, of which Julia was fully aware; and before
    he had been at Mansfield a week, she was quite ready to be fallen in
    love with
    Maria’s notions on the subject were more confused and indistinct
    She did not want to see or understa
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    "Second Battalion mens gucci watches headquarters," Croft said"What've you been working on the road for all this time if you don't even know where you are?"
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    "You bitching again, Goldstein?" Croft asked
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    1:10 pm
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    Goldstein listened to him, tempted by the same inevitable suite of rationalizations that Stanley had followedHe wondered how to suggest it to Ridges, and was silent"You jus' shut up, WilsonWe ain't leavin' ya
    And therefore Goldstein could not quitHe would not be the first one; he was a little daytona rolex afraid that Ridges then would bundle Wilson on his back and continueHe was bitter and thought of faintingThat he wouldn't do, but he was angry with Brown and Stanley for deserting themThey quit, why don't I quit? he wondered, and knew he wouldn't
    "Jus' set me down an' gowan, men
    "We'll git ya back," Ridges mutteredHe too was cheap rolex playing with the idea of deserting Wilson, but he pushed it away in a spasm of disgustIf he left him it would be murder, an awful sin if he left a Christian to dieRidges thought of the black mark it would be on his soulEver since he had been a child he had imagined his soul as a white object the size and shape of a football, balenciaga motorcycle lodged somewhere near his stomachEach time he sinned an ineradicable black spot was inked onto the white soul, its size depending upon the enormity of the sinAt the time a man died, if the white football was more than half black he went to hellRidges was certain that the sin of leaving Wilson would cover at least a quarter of his men wallet gucci so
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    teeth clenched to stop their chattering from the cold, to hold back the
    choking in her throatThis will be over soon, and then I can go home
    to
    TaraThe jagged pieces of Scarlett's shattered life were all around
    there in Atlanta's Oakland CemeteryA tall spire of granite, gray
    stone streaked with gray rain, was somber memorial to the world that
    was gone forever, the carefree world of her youth before the WarIt
    was the Confederate Memorial, symbol of the proud, heedless earring chanel courage
    that had plunged the South with bright banners flying into destruction
    It stood for so many lives lost, the friends of her childhood, the
    gallants who had begged for waltzes and kisses in the days when she
    had
    no problems greater than which wide-skirted ballgown to wearIt
    stood
    for her first husband, Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brotherIt stood
    for the sons, brothers, husbands, fathers of all the rain-wet mourners
    on the small knoll where Melanie was being buried
    There were other graves, other markersFrank Kennedy, Scarlett's
    second chanel knockoff husband
    And the small, terribly small, grave with the headstone that read
    EUGENIE VIcToRIA BUTLER, and under it BoNNIEHer last child, and
    the
    most lovedThe living, as well as the dead, were all round her, but
    she stood apartHalf of Atlanta was there, it seemedThe crowd had
    overflowed the church and now it spread in a wide, uneven dark circle
    around the bitter slash of color in the gray rain, the open grave dug
    from Georgia's red clay for the body of Melanie WilkesThe front row
    of mourners held those who'd been closest to herWhite and hermes purse black,
    their faces all streaked with tears, except Scarlett'sThe old
    coachman Uncle Peter stood with Dilcey and Cookie in a protective
    black
    triangle around Beau, Melanie's bewildered little boyThe older
    generation of Atlanta were there, with the tragically few descendants
    that remained to themThe Meades, the Whitings, the Merriwethers,
    the
    Elsings, their daughters and sons-in-law, Hugh Elsing the only living
    son; Aunt Pittypat Hamilton and her brother, Uncle Henry Hamilton,
    their ages-old feud forgotten in mutual grief for their motorcycle balenciaga niece
    Younger, but looking as old as the others, India Wilkes sheltered
    herself within the group and watched her brother, Ashley, from
    griefand
    guilt-shadowed eyesHe stood alone, like ScarlettHe was
    bare-headed in the rain, unaware of the proffered shelter of umbrellas,
    unconscious of the cold wetness, unable to accept the finality of the
    minister's words or the narrow coffin being lowered into the muddy red
    graveTall and thin and colorless, his pale gilt hair now
    almost gray, his pale stricken face as empty as his staring, unseeing
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    1:16 pm
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    experience of babies brought by knifeWhy should she listen to him?
    Particularly when there was something she really had to doFitz
    had told her about the old woman who had appeared, as if by magic,
    to
    deliver Cat in the middle of the Halloween tempestColum had told
    her
    who the woman was-the coilleach from the towerScarlett owed louis vuitton duffle bag the
    wise
    woman her life, and Cat'sThe cold took
    Scarlett by surpriseOctober had been warm enough, how could one
    month make so much difference? She wrapped the folds of her cloak
    around the well-blanketed babyHer large eyes
    looked
    at Scarlett's face"You darling thing," said Scarlett softly
    "You're so good, Cat, you never cry, do you?" She walked through the
    bricked stableyard to the gucci twirl watch route she'd used so often in the trap"I
    know you're there someplace," Scarlett shouted at the thicket of
    undergrowth beneath the trees that bordered the tower's clearing
    "You might as well come on out and talk to me, because I'm going to
    stand right here freezing to death until you doThe baby, too, if
    that matters to you She waited confidentlyThe woman who had
    brought Cat into the cheap rolex world would never let her be exposed for long to
    the cold damp in the shadow of the towerCat's eyes left Scarlett's
    face to move from side to side as if she were looking for somethingA
    few minutes later Scarlett heard a rustling in the thick growth of
    holly bushes to her rightThe wise woman stepped out between two
    of
    them"This way," she said, and stepped back
    There was a path, bag dolce gabbana Scarlett saw when she got nearShe'd never have
    found it if the wise woman hadn't held back the spiny holly branches
    with one of her shawlsScarlett followed the path until it
    disappeared in a grove of low-branched trees"I give up," she said,
    "where to now?" There was a rusty laugh behind her"This way,"
    said
    the wise womanShe walked around Scarlett and bent low under gucci horsebit hobo the
    branches
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    Jason reached down and picked up the hand-held radio from the sillHe pressed the button and
    spoke“Johnny?”
    “Yes?”
    “Those four black priests on the path, do you see them?”
    “Yes
    “Have a guard stop them and bring them into the lobbyTell him to say the owner wants to see
    them
    “Hey, they’re not going into the villa, they’re just passing by offering prayers to prada tote bag the bereaved
    insideThe vicar from town called and I gave him permission
    “The hell they are,” said Jason Bourne The Chameleon spun around on the stool,
    looking at the objects in the storage roomHe slid off his perch and walked to a bureau with a
    mirror attached to its topHe yanked the automatic from his belt, smashed the glass, picked up a
    fragment and brought chanel logo earrings it to Fontaine“Five minutes after I leave, flash this every now and then in
    the window
    “I shall do so from the side of the window, monsieur Jason relented to the point of a brief slight smile“It struck me that I didn’t
    really have to suggest that
    “And what will you do?”
    “What he’s doing nowBecome a tourist in Montserrat, a roving ‘guest’ at Tranquility dior bag Inn
    Bourne again reached down for the radio; he picked it up, pressed the button and gave his orders
    “Go to the men’s shop in the lobby and get me three different guayabera jackets, a pair of sandals,
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    flaresI’ll meet you on the steps up here
    “You will not heed my words, then,” said Fontaine, lowering the binoculars and looking at
    Jason“Monsieur le Caméléon goes to work
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    1:18 pm
    @@@@@Not unless they thought I was dead, or had
    @@@@@Not unless they
    thought I was dead, or had made sure that Iwould beNot unless there were places in these
    caves that no one came back from
    The picture I'd been forming of my surroundings shifted dizzyingly in my headI saw myself
    now at the bottom of a deep shaft or walled into a cramped tombMy breathing sped up, tasting
    the air for staleness, for some sign that my oxygen was running lowThe muscles around my
    lungs pulled outward, filling with air for the scream that was on the wayI clenched my teeth to
    keep it from escaping
    Sharp and close, something grated across the ground beside my head
    I shrieked, and the sound of it was piercing in the small spaceI jerked
    away from the sinister noise, throwing myself against a jagged rock wallMy hands swung up to
    protect my face as my headthunk ed painfully against the low ceiling
    A dim light illuminated the perfectly round exit to the tiny bubble of a cave I was curled in
    Jared's face was half lit as he leaned into the opening, one arm reaching toward meHis lips
    were tight with angerA vein in his forehead pulsed as he watched my panicked reaction
    He didn't move; he just stared furiously while my heart restarted and my breathing evened outI
    met his glare, remembering how quiet he had always been–like a wraith when he wantedNo
    wonder I hadn't heard him sitting guard outside my cell
    But I had heardsomethingAs I remembered that, Jared shoved his extended arm closer, and the
    grating noise repeatedAt my feet was a broken sheet of plastic serving as a tray
    And on it…
    I lunged for the open bottle of waterI was barely aware that Jared's mouth twisted with
    disgust as I jerked the bottle to my lipsI was sure that would bother me later, but all I cared
    about now was the waterI wondered if ever in my life I would take the liquid for granted agai
    6:34 am
    @@@@@he backed out of the niche and walked to a
    @@@@@he backed out of
    the niche and walked to a windowHis profile was like a hawk's
    against the fire-lit skyScarlett followed himShe felt as if she
    could follow him to the ends of the earthhe had only to call her
    nameNo one had ever said her name quite the way Rhett did"We'll
    get away," she said confidently when she was beside him"There's a
    hidden path from the witch's cottage
    "From what?"
    "She's not really a witch, at least I don't think so, and it doesn't
    matter anyhowShe'll show us the pathOr Cat will know one, she's
    in the woods all the time
    "Is there anything Cat doesn't know?"
    "She doesn't know you're her father Scarlett saw the muscles
    tighten
    in his jaw"Some day I'll beat you black and blue for not telling
    me
    "I was going to, but you fixed it so I couldn't!" Scarlett said
    hotly
    "You divorced me when it was supposed to be and then before I could
    turn around you had gone and gotten marriedWhat was I supposed
    to
    do? hang around your front door - my baby wrapped in my shawl like
    some kind of fallen woman? I could you do such a thing? That was
    rotten of you, Rhett
    "Rotten of me? After you went charging off to God k where without a
    word to anybody? My mother was worried literally ill, until your Aunt
    Eulalie told her you were in Savannah"But I left her a noteI
    wouldn't upset your mother for - world Rhett
    caught her chin in his hand, turned and held her face the uneven
    garish
    light from the windowSuddenly he kissed - then he put his arms
    around
    her and held her to him"It hap again," he said"My darling,
    hot-tempered, pigheaded, wonderful, infuriating Scarlett, do you
    realize we've been through this before? Missed signals, missed
    chances, misunderstandings that need never have happenedWe've
    got to
    sto
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    1:10 pm
    @@@@@It was warm, but I chugged half of it,
    @@@@@It
    was warm, but I chugged half of it, burped, then
    drank againI looked around and saw only my
    friends and a length of dirty hallwayIn fact, it was terribleMy hand - I
    was definitely back to one again - was stiff and
    throbbing, as if I had been using it steadily for
    1012
    at least two hours, so where were the drawings? I
    was terrified that without the drawings,
    everything would fade the way dreams do upon
    wakingAnd I had risked more than my life for
    that informationI had risked my sanity
    I struggled, trying to get to my feetA bolt of
    pain went through my head where I'd bumped it
    against the wall"Where are the pictures? Please
    tell me there are pictures!"
    "Relax, muchacho, right here Wireman stepped
    aside and showed me a semi-tidy stack of Artisan
    sheets"You were drawing like a madman, tearing
    them off your pad as you wentI took em and
    stacked em up
    And this felt like the literal truth
    Jack looked around uneasilyThe front corridor,
    which had been filled with afternoon light when I
    took Noveen from Jack and went bye-bye down a
    black hole, was now dimmerNot dark - not yet,
    and when I looked up I could see the sky overhead
    was still blue - but it was clear that the
    afternoon was either gone or almost gone
    1013
    "What time is it?" I asked
    "Quarter past five," Wireman saidHe didn't have
    to glance at his watch, which told me he'd been
    keeping close track"Sunset's still a couple of
    hours awaySo if they only come out
    at night-"
    "I think they doThat's enough time, and I still
    need to eatWe can get out of this ruinWe're
    done with the houseWe may need a ladder,
    though
    6:26 am
    @@@@@His hand was close to mine, resting on the
    @@@@@His hand was close to mine, resting on the edge of my cot
    Please, no,I told hery face hurts quite enough as it is!
    He won't hit you'm not willing to risk it
    Melanie sighed; she yearned to move toward himIt wouldn't have been so hard to bear if I
    weren't yearning also
    Give him time,I pleadedet him get used to usWait till he really believes
    “Aw, hell!” Kyle grumbledMy gaze flickered toward him at the sound of his voiceI could just
    see his bright eyes around Jared's elbow, focused on me“It didn't fall!” he complained
    CHAPTER 34
    Buried
    Jared lunged forward, away from meWith a loud smacking sound, his fist hit Kyle's face
    Kyle's eyes rolled back in his head, and his mouth fell slack
    The room was very quiet for a few seconds
    “Um,” Doc said in a mild voice, “medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful
    thing for his condition
    “ButI feel better,” Jared answered, sullen
    Doc smiled the tiniest smile“Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill
    him
    Doc began looking under Kyle's lids again, taking his pulse…
    “What happened?” Wes was by my head, speaking in a murmur
    “Kyle tried to kill it,” Jared answered before I could“Are we really surprised?”
    “Did not,” I muttered
    “Altruism seems to come more naturally to it than lies,” Jared no
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    1:10 pm
    @@@@@Cottager’s wife is a very pretty part, I
    @@@@@Cottager’s wife is a very pretty
    part, I assure youThe old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence
    of her husband with a good deal of spiritYou shall be Cottager’s
    wife
    “Cottager’s wife!” cried Mr“What are you talking of? The
    most trivial, paltry, insignificant part; the merest commonplace; not
    a tolerable speech in the wholeYour sister do that! It is an insult to
    propose itAt Ecclesford the governess was to have done itWe all
    agreed that it could not be offered to anybody elseA little more
    justice, MrManager, if you pleaseYou do not deserve the office, if
    you cannot appreciate the talents of your company a little better
    119
    Jane Austen
    “Why, as to that, my good friend, till I and my company have
    really acted there must be some guesswork; but I mean no disparagement
    to JuliaWe cannot have two Agathas, and we must have
    one Cottager’s wife; and I am sure I set her the example of moderation
    myself in being satisfied with the old ButlerIf the part is trifling
    she will have more credit in making something of it; and if she
    is so desperately bent against everything humorous, let her take
    Cottager’s speeches instead of Cottager’s wife’s, and so change the
    parts all through; he is solemn and pathetic enough, I am sureIt
    could make no difference in the play, and as for Cottager himself,
    when he has got his wife’s speeches, I would undertake him with all
    my heart
    “With all your partiality for Cottager’s wife,” said Henry Crawford,
    “it will be impossible to make anything of it fit for your sister, and
    we must not suffer her good-nature to be imposed onWe must not
    allow her to accept the partShe must not be left to her own complaisance
    Her talents will be wanted in AmeliaAmelia is a character
    more difficult to be well represented than even AgathaI consider
    Amelia is the most difficult character in the whole pieceIt
    requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity
    without extravaganceI have seen good actresses fail in the
    partSimplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almost every actress
    by professionIt requires a delicacy of feeling which they have
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    "My master's voice," Hearn said
    He finished buttoning his shirt, kicked his chair back into place, and walked through the tentIn one corner a few officers were drinking up one of their ration bottles of whisky
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    "Sorry, I thought you'd gone on ahead," Hearn muttered The General strolled slowly toward his own tent, and Hearn constrained his pace to keep from walking too fastHad the General heard him say "My master's voice"? Aaah, to hell with him
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    "We'll discuss that when we get to the tent Between them for the moment there was some antagonismThey walked on in silence, their feet crunching into the gravel walkOnly one or two men passed by them in the darkness; with the night, almost all activity halted in the bivouacAbout them in the rough ellipse of their area Hearn could feel almost tangibly the ring of enlisted men sitting in their foxholes on guard"Quiet tonight," he diaper bag gucci muttered,
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    At the entrance to the General's tent, another collision occurredHearn halted at the tent flaps to allow the General to precede him, and Cummings in turn put his hand on Hearn's back to indicate that he was to go firstThey both started at once, and Hearn sideswiped the General, felt him recoil a foot or two from the weight of Hearn's big body There was no answer for a moment, and in a little spasm of anger Hearn separated pearl chanel the flaps and walked in aheadWhen Cummings followed, his face was extremely pale and his lower lip showed the indentation of two teethEither the collision had hurt him more than Hearn had thought or he was disturbed enough to pinch his lipBut why? It would be more characteristic for Cummings to find amusement in the situation
    Still defiant, Hearn sat down without permissionThe General seemed about to say something and then was white chanel watch silent
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    1:10 pm
    @@@@@Weapons: an automatic, as well as a CO2 dart
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    collection of killers and misfits who roamed the jungles of Southeast Asia directed by Command
    Saigon, the original death squads who brought Saigon more intelligence input than all the searchand-
    destroys put togetherJason Bourne had come out of Medusa with David Webb only a
    memory—a scholar who had another wife, other children, all slaughtered
    General Norman Swayne had been an elite member of Command Saigon, the sole supplier of the
    old MedusaAnd now there was a new Medusa: different, massive, evil incarnate cloaked in
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    assassin would find the principals irresistible as clients, and both camps would demand the death of
    Jason BourneThat had to happen! And for it to happen, Bourne had to learn the secrets concealed
    within the grounds belonging to General Swayne, head of all procurements for the Pentagon, a
    panicked man with a small tattoo on his inner forearm
    Without sound or warning, a black Doberman crashed through the dense foliage, its frenzy in
    full forceJason whipped the CO2 pistol from its nylon holster as the salivating attack dog lunged
    for his stomach, its teeth baredHe fired into its head; the dart took effect in secondsHe cradled
    the animal’s unconscious body to the ground
    Cut its throat! roared Jason Bourne in silence
    No, countered his other self, David WebbBlame the trainer, not the animal
    Get away from me, David!
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    1
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    and necks were drenched with sweat, except for those screaming as they plunged over the crests of
    a roller coaster, or shrieking as they plummeted down the narrow, twisting gullies of racing water
    in torpedo sledsThe garishly colored, manically blinking lights along the midway were joined by
    the grating sounds of emphatic music metallically erupting out of an excess of loudspeakers—
    calliopes presto, marches prestissimoPitchmen yelled above the din, nasally hawking their wares
    in monotonic harangues while erratic explosions in the sky lit up the darkness, sending sprays of
    myriad fireworks cascading over a small adjacent black lakeRoman candles bright, arcing bursts
    of fire blinding
    A row of Hit-the-Gong machines drew contorted faces and thick necks bulging with veins as
    men sought furiously and frequently in frustration to prove their manhood, crashing heavy wooden
    mallets down on the deceitful planks that too often refused to send the little red balls up to the bells
    Across the way, others shrieked with menacing enthusiasm as they crashed their Dodge ’Em carts
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    at 9:27 in the evening in a conflict that meant nothing
    Farther along was a minor monument to sudden death, a shooting gallery that bore little
    resemblance to the innocent minimum-caliber variety found in state fairs and rural carnivals
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    32
    etched on King Tut's tomb, I believe it might have
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    He had nearly disappeared into the old sofa; now
    he began to struggle up againI stepped forward
    to help him and he waved me awayHe made it to
    his feet at last, wheezing more loudly than ever,
    and took up his briefcaseHe looked down at me
    from his height of six and a half feet, those
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    "Edgar, does anything make you happy?"
    I considered the surface of this question (the
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    Both of which were now going or gone
    33
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    vi
    34
    A week or so later, Tom Riley came to see me again
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    I couldI watched them work their way around the
    circular cap, tearing away the vines and the weeds
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    vii
    Jack and Wireman knelt on one side of the capI
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