They have character. The words throbbing in her mind, she walked slowlybackward along the time line, from that day's date back, reading thenotations, the most significant details in red, the peripheral events inblue. Pseudo-Tudors and pseudo-Georgians, saltboxes with attachments, andyuppie-rustic homes like the Kirkwoods', sided in split cedar andlandscaped with river birch and artfully arranged boulders. You sat across the table from me at the chamber of commercedinner last year.
She sounded too old to be five, too disillusioned to be a little girl. She could feel him against her belly,hard, ready to make good on his statement. Each of the nine districts contained fourdivisions. His mother's house always smelled of lemon oil and wax from polishingthe furniture.
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