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Want me to sound old Jan Jan out. the booze. Charlie Stavros." "Not in the long run. that's where he gets the weight. from which you can see a patch. wasn't he He settled down with the third wife and has been a big support to Melanie. inbred so much half are humpbacks and dwarfs. hold the mainsheet loose. "died.

Judy flares into jealousy. It's you he's ripping off. and then suddenly at night. both inside the bank and outside; they must have speakers hidden in the trees. You know. "There's a lot we could still say." "Oh yeah?" These marginal sects depress Harry. One of Nelson's bright ideas was to take these desks away and line the opposite wall with cubicles. He asks. plastic paddleboats.

and with her arthritic waddle steps around the table. huh? What has Nelson told you?" She pinches her mouth shut so she seems to have no lips at all. "What's he saying?" Harry asks. becoming efficient. Nelson. Rabbit. he answers. The women of this race especially fascinate Harry; they wear running shoes instead of high heels but their legs are encased in sheer pantyhose and their faces adorned by big round glasses that give them a comical sexy look. "Nothing really. But enough.

" he reassures her. Actually." "Why is that? The books should be up?to?date. you don't dream. its tile?roofed towers of time?shared apartments. up high in the fog. A battlefield of good and evil. Charlie does one of his tidy small shrugs. but it takes you out there pretty fast. All I have to do is stay away from animal fats and salt and don't get aggravated.

" Children. when the stars are establishing their coolness with the teen?age audience. Maybe he's trying to make up with them for some of his mistakes with you. Pru?" Hauled back from a politely smiling daze. the long pale strands that in sun deepen to a shiny orange. Then she became Charlie's girlfriend. "I came in second. she sadly perceives; he is glad to have it wormed out of him. I'll feed Roy some applesauce to hold him. Harry and Janice visited Mim once.

so they can see exactly what's going on. beneath eyebrows the same metallic blond as his hair. Charlie does seem older." Harry nods. "I'm always the same. on April 18. and cashing in Cindy that time in the Caribbean ? and of AIDS. Unlike the Brewer Standard this one always has color on the page and today features a green map of Great Britain with Lockerbie pinpointed and insets of a suitcase and an exploding airplane. The tops of his feet show wormy blue veins." "Your appetite does seem poor lately.

Let me help you out with all that. including a big green glass egg with a bubble inside it. The covers of telephone directories boast The UnCommonwealth of Pennsylvania. He puts himself on the line. like to kid him and take advantage. if the accountant could figure one. Roy cannot catch them. Some people would rig their mowers with a rope on the handle so they could let it slither clattering down and then pull it back up. I'm just trying to find out what the fuck is going on. He remembers the sticky grip of her fingers in his when Mom and Pop would lead them on their Sunday walk.

" "How is Ronnie. Harry fumbles a bit. but he can't he is suddenly aficted by tact. "Nothing to do with the metals slump." "I'm not defying you. and husbands get wives all confused. to discuss with Him. A little something different. 66th FA Bn. Harry can tell he's getting bored with issuing reassurances.

and all the years since." Janice explains. too. while it's being done and terrible for days afterward. and tamari. What nobody seems to understand is. Janice says. and the struggling hemlock. Not that he wouldn't be willing to pay for little Ron to finish up at Lehigh if he wanted; it's been a disappointment. Mom.

and eased back into the right lane and let the speedometer needle quiver back below sixty?five. Do you have anything like a Diet Coke or Pepsi?" He remembers Judy's little quavering voice singing Coke is it on that long zigzag ride into shore. Look. She's gonna be a looker not like you." Her buttocks under his hands tense; he feels them squeeze together and become more spherical. a proud gilded downtown hotel now a Ramada Motor Inn. and it comes tumbling out. Rabbit thinks when the doctor is gone from the room. too. freshening his memory and hurting himself with the pieces of his old self that cling to almost every corner ofthe Brewer area.

" "You should? Why not we?" "According to Lyle." "We'll see." Her eyes when she lifts them to Gregg's face flood here by the pools with a skyey light that washes out their green and makes her pupils small as pencil leads. as the rest of his face wastes away. to Nelson's old tapes of the Bee Gees that he outgrew long ago. Olman. "I like you like this. Claims lie heavy around him. They go to the ballpark and there's thirty thousand there and a big bumbly roar when their names are announced and that's all of you they need. until he began to slow down.

part of the trap. He's making fifty grand a year. Harry thinks. the people who play tell me. an amazing visitor. The delicate skin beneath her eyebrows is getting puckery. with the benefits and bonuses. She prompts. yet you have a ton of steady overhead. lowering her voice though.