'll hear that they ate the wallpaper, fucked the dog,and showed up at church suppers wearing nothing but their pee-stainedBVDS. Oh forGod's sake say she's-- He dropped to his knees beside me, his eyes rolling up until nothingshowed but the whites. Iwas thinking back to the conversation I'd had with him, remembering theunderhum on the phone line, the characteristic underhum I rememberedfrom all my previous summers at Sara Laughs. In one hand he had a box wrapped in blue paper and tied witha white ribbon.
Iswung my legs out of bed and raised my hand to brush my sweat-hair off my forehead. Two other things which bearnarrating happened before that. His mother? Hisgrandmother?I walked slowly through the kitchen, collecting fridge-magnets likeprizes in a scavenger hunt and sticking them back on the Kenmore by thehandful. She held him close and her arms were tight round his neck.
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