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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    6:10 pm
    @@@@@I don't have a week or more,
    @@@@@I don't have a week or more, Scarlett
    shouted
    inwardly, I can't even afford to waste a dayShe plodded back to the
    house through the rain"Throw away these damned boots," she
    ordered
    Pansy"And get me out some dry clothes Pansy was even more
    soaked
    than she wasWith an ostentatious fit of pitiful coughing, she limped
    off to do Scarlett's biddingI should take a strap to that girl,
    Scarlett said to herself, but she was more heartsick than angryThe
    rain stopped in the afternoonMiss Eleanor and Rosemary decided to
    go
    up to King Street shoppingScarlett didn't even want to do that
    She sat in her room brooding until the walls seemed to be closing in on
    her, then she went downstairs to the libraryMaybe Rhett would be
    there to provide some sympathyShe couldn't talk to anyone else
    about
    her frustration because she hadn't told anyone else what she was
    doing
    "How goes the reformation of the Catholic Church?" he asked, raising
    one eyebrowShe burst into an angry account of the Mother
    Superior's
    flightHe made sympathetic noises while he cut and lit a thin
    cigar
    "I'm going out onto the piazza to smoke," he said when it was glowing
    to hissatisfaction"Come out and get some airThe rainstorm
    brought
    summer back again; it's very warm now that it's blown out to sea
    The
    sunlight was dazzling after the dim interior of the dining room
    Scarlett shaded her eyes, breathing in the damp green smell of the
    garden and the salt tang of the harbor and the pungent masculinity of
    cigar smoke
    Suddenly she was acutely aware of Rhett's presenceShe was so
    disturbed that she walked away several paces, and his voice when he
    spoke seemed to come from a great distance"I believe that the
    school
    the Sisters have in Georgia is in SavannahYou might go down after
    the Saint Cecilia for your grandfather's birth
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    6:55 pm
    @@@@@Istanbul, Athens, Rome He was a remarkable
    @@@@@Istanbul, Athens, Rome He was a remarkable adversaryOf course, we were young then, both slender and
    quick and so taken with ourselves, wanting so desperately to live up to the images we envisioned
    for ourselvesIt was all so long agoWe were both terribly good, you knowHe was actually better
    than me, but don’t you ever tell him I said soHe always saw the broader picture, the longer road
    than I sawIt was the Russian in him, of course
    “Why do you use the word ‘adversary’?” asked Jason“It’s so athletic, as if you’d been playing
    a gameWasn’t he your enemy?”
    Krupkin’s large head snapped toward Bourne, his eyes glass, not warm at all“Of course he was
    my enemy, MrBourne, and to clarify the picture for you, he still is my enemyDon’t, I beg you,
    mistake my indulgences for what they are notA man’s weaknesses may intrude on his faith but
    they do not diminish itI may not have the convenience of the Roman confession to expiate my sins
    so as to go forth and sin again despite my belief, but I do believeMy grandfathers and
    grandmothers were hanged—hanged, sir—for stealing chickens from a Romanov prince’s estate
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    368
    Few, if any, of my ancestors were ever given the privilege of the most rudimentary schooling,
    forget educationThe Supreme Soviet revolution of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin made possible
    the beginning of all thingsThousands upon thousands of mistakes have been made—many
    inexcusable, many more brutal—but a beginning was madeI, myself, am both the proof and the
    error of it
    “I’m not sure I understand that
    “Because you and your feeble intellectuals have never understood what we have understood
    from the startBourne, envisages stages toward a just society, economic and
    political, but it does not and never did state what specific form the nuts-and-bolts government will
    ultimately beOnly that it could not be as it
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    6:16 pm
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    gucci fabric,gucci hobo handbag,black gucci watch,gucci watch bangle,balenciaga handbag@@@@@It wasn't a mistake, Illy
    "You wouldn't change it?"
    People kept asking me that question
    "If you could go backwould you?"
    575
    I paused, but not longSometimes there's no time
    to decide what's the best answerSometimes you
    can only give the true answer
    "Sometimes gucci fabric I miss the old times, tooWhen things
    were less complicatedI could have
    spoken - wanted to - but kept silentSometimes
    silence is best"Dad, do people ever deserve
    second chances?"
    I thought of my own second chanceHow I had
    survived an accident that should have gucci hobo handbag killed me
    And I was doing more than just hanging out, it
    seemedI felt a rush of gratitudeI can't wait to see youYou'll get an official invitation
    soon
    I sat for a moment with the phone at my ear after
    she hung up, listening to the nothing"Do the day
    and let the day black gucci watch do you," I saidThen the dial
    576
    tone kicked in, and I decided I had one more call
    to make, after all
    viii
    This time when Alice Aucoin came to the phone, she
    sounded a lot more lively and a lot less cautious
    I thought that was a nice change
    "Alice, we never gucci watch bangle talked about a name for the
    show," I said
    "I was sort of assuming you meant to call it
    'Roses Grow from Shells,'" she said
    "It is," I said, looking out to the Florida room
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    glar
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    6:18 pm
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    "You said you wanted to learnIf you don't learn this now, you'll grow up to be like the two women and the older man sitting in my living room, working for money and hoping I don't fire themOr like your dad, earning lots of money only to be in debt up to his eyeballs, hoping more money will solve the problemIf that's what you want, I'll go back to our original deal of 10 cents an chanel wholesale hourOr you can do what most people grow up to doComplain that there is not enough pay, quit and go looking for another job
    "But what do I do?" I asked
    Rich dad tapped me on the head"If you use it well, you will soon thank me for giving you an opportunity, and you will grow into a rich man
    I stood there still not believing what a raw deal I had been handedHere I came to ask for a chanel earrings raise, and now I was being told to keep working for nothing
    Rich dad tapped me on the head again and said, "Use thisNow get out of here and get back to work
    LESSON #l: The Rich Don't Work For Money

    I didn't tell my poor dad I wasn't being paidHe would not have understood, and I did not want to try to explain something that I did not yet understand myself
    For three more weeks, cartier santos watch Mike and I worked for three hours, every Saturday, for nothingThe work didn't bother me, and the routine got easierIt was the missed baseball games and not being able to afford to buy a few comic books that got to me
    Rich dad stopped by at noon on the third weekWe heard his truck pull up in the parking lot and sputter when the engine was turned offHe entered the store and greeted Cartier Tortue MrsAfter finding out how things were going in the store, he reached into the ice-cream freezer, pulled out two bars, paid for them, and signalled to Mike and me
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    We crossed the street, dodging a few cars, and walked across a large grassy field, where a few adults were playing softballSitting down at a remote picnic table, he handed Mike and me the ice-cream gucci for women
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    6:10 pm
    @@@@@Everything was relaxed and peaceful, except
    @@@@@Everything was relaxed and peaceful, except for the dull throbbing in his stomach
    Abruptly, he realized the firing had stoppedAh gotta git back in the weeds where the Japs won' find meHe tried to rise but he felt too weakSlowly, grunting from the effort, he crawled a few yards farther back into the tall grass, and relaxed again, content because he could no longer see the fieldHis dizziness, his well-being sifted through his bodyFeels like Ah'm likkered upHe shook his head in bewildermentHe remembered sitting in a bar once, pleasantly drunk, his hand around the hips of the woman beside him in the boothHe was going home with her in a few minutes, and a tingle of passion flushed through him at the thought"That's right, honey," he heard himself say, looking at the roots of the kunai grass before his nose
    Ah'm gonna die, Wilson told himselfA cold charge of fear awakened his body, and he whimpered for a momentHe pictured the bullet tearing through his body, ripping apart the flesh inside, and he felt nauseaA little bile welled out of his mouth"All that poison inside me is gonna be messin' aroun' now, jus' killin' me But he drifted away again, settled into the warm lapping content of his drowsiness and weaknessHe was no longer afraid of dyingThat bullet's gonna clean up mah insidesAll the pus'll be comin' out now, an' Ah'll be okayPappy said his granpappy used to have an ole nigger woman bleed him wheneveh he had the feverTha's jus' what Ah'm doin' nowHe looked mistily at the groundThe blood was sopping against his shirt front, which made him slightly uncomfortableHe held his hand over it, smiling faint
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    6:10 pm
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    Tiffany Earrings,cheap rolex,omega seamaster gmt,tiffany replica jewelry,diamond gucci@@@@@ The two sisters exchanged shocked looksScarlett smiled and
    ladled more gravy onto the potatoes left on her plate
    What geese her aunts wereDidn't they know that you had to stand
    up
    to bullies like their father or else they'd trample right over you? It
    never occurred to Scarlett that she was able to resist being bullied
    because she was a bully herself, or that her grandfather's laughter was
    caused by his recognition of her resemblance to himWhen Tiffany Earrings dessert
    was
    served, the bowls of tapioca had somehow become largerEulalie
    smiled
    gratefully at her niece
    "Sister and I were just saying how much we enjoyed having you with
    us
    in our old home, ScarlettDon't you find Savannah a lovely little
    city? Did you see the fountain in Chippewa Square? And the theater?
    It's nearly as old as Charleston'sI remember how Sister and I used
    to look out of the windows of our schoolroom at the thespians coming
    and goingDon't you cheap rolex remember, Sister?" Pauline rememberedShe
    also
    remembered that Scarlett had not told them she was going out that
    morning, nor where she had beenWhen Scarlett reported that she'd
    been to the Cathedral, Pauline put her finger to her lipsPere, she
    said, was unfortunately extremely opposed to Roman CatholicismIt
    had
    something to do with French history, she wasn't sure what, but he got
    very angry about the ChurchThat was the reason she and Eulalie
    always left omega seamaster gmt Charleston after Mass to come to Savannah and left
    Savannah
    on Saturday to return to CharlestonThis year there was a particular
    difficulty; because Easter was so early, they would be in Savannah for
    Ash Wednesday
    Naturally they had to attend Mass, and they could leave the house
    early
    and unobservedBut how could they keep their father from seeing the
    smudges of ash on their foreheads when they returned to the house?
    "Wash your face," said Scarlett impatiently, tiffany replica jewelry thereby revealing her
    ignorance and the recent date of her return to religionShe dropped
    her napkin on the table"I've got to be off," she said brisklyI'm going to visit my O'Hara uncles and aunts She didn't want
    anyone to know that she was trying to buy the convent's share of
    Tara
    Especially not her aunts, they gossiped too muchWhy, they might
    even
    write to Suellen"What time do we leave in the
    morning for Mass?"
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    6:14 pm
    @@@@@Which?” “For Christ’s sake, check with your
    @@@@@Which?”
    “For Christ’s sake, check with your vehicle bureau, or whatever you call it!”
    “Take timeAlso in Moskva, automobiles under different names, different tag plates—
    Leningrad, Smolensk, who knows—all to not look for automobile laws broken
    “What the hell is he talking about?” shouted Jason
    “Automobile ownership is regulated by the state,” explained Krupkin weakly from the table
    “Each major center has its own registration and is frequently reluctant to cooperate with another
    center
    “Why?”
    “Individual ownership under different family names—even nonfamily names
    There are only so many vehicles available for purchase
    “So?”
    “Local bribery is a fact of lifeNo one in Leningrad wants a finger pointed at him from a
    bureaucrat in MoscowHe’s telling you that it could take several days to learn what automobile the
    Jackal’s driving
    “That’s crazy!”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    405
    “You said it, MrI’m an upstanding citizen of the Soviet Union, please
    remember that
    “But what’s it all got to do with Novgorod—that is what he said, isn’t it?”
    “NovgorodShto eto znachit?” said Krupkin to the KGB officialIn rapid, clipped Russian, the
    peasant commissar gave the pertinent details to his colleague from ParisKrupkin turned his head
    on the table and translated in English“Try to follow this, Jason,” he said, his voice intermittently
    fading, his breathing becoming increasingly more labored“Apparently there is a walk-around
    gallery above the armory’s arenaHe used it and saw you through a window on the road by the
    hedges and came back to the weapons room screaming like the maniac he isHe shouted to his
    bound hostages that you were his and you were deadAnd there was only one last thing he had to
    accomplish
    “Novgorod,” interrupted Conklin, whispering, his head rigid, staring at the ceiling
    “Precisely,” said Krupkin, his eyes focused on Alex’s profile beside him“He’s going back to
    the place of his birth where Ilich Ramirez Sanchez became Carlos the Jackal because he was
    disinherited, marked for execution as a madm
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    6:18 pm
    @@@@@Everyone has living expenses, the need for
    @@@@@Everyone has living expenses, the need for food, shelter and clothing
    The diagrams show the flow of cash through a poor, middle class or wealthy person's lifeIt is the cash flow that tells the storyIt is the story of how a person handles their money, what they do after they get the money in their hand
    The reason I started with the story of the richest men in America is to illustrate the flaw in the thinking of so many peopleThe flaw is that money will solve all problemsThat is why I cringe whenever 1 hear people ask me how to get rich quicker Or where do they start? I often hear, "I'm in debt so I need lo make more money
    But more money will often not solve the problem; in fact, it may actually accelerate the problemMoney often makes obvious our tragic human flaws Money often puts a spotlight on what we do not knowThat is why, all too often, a person who comes into a sudden windfall of cash-let's say an inheritance, a pay raise or lottery winnings-soon returns to the same financial mess, if not worse than the mess they were in before they received the money Money only accentuates the cash flow pattern running in your head If your pattern is to spend everything you get, most likely an increase in cash will just result in an increase in spendingThus, the saying, "A fool and his money is one big party," I have said many times that we go to school to gain scholastic skills and professional skills, both importantWe learn to make money with our professional skillsIn the 1960s, when I was in high school, if someone did well in school academically, almost immediately people assumed this bright student would go on to be a medical doctor Often no one asked the child if they wanted to be a doctor It was the profession with the promise of the greatest financial reward
    Today, doctors are facing financial challenges I would not wish on my worst enemy; insurance companies taking control of the business, managed health care, government intervention, and malpractice suits, to name a fewToday, kids want to be basketball stars, golfers like Tiger Woods, computer nerds, movie stare, rock stars, beauty queens, or traders on Wall Street Simply because that is where the fame, money and prestige isThat is the reason it is so hard to motivate kids in school todayThey know that professional success is no longer solely linked to academic success, as it once was
    Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves struggling financial
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    6:10 pm
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    Brown assembled the litter-bearers, had Wilson placed on the stretcher, and began to move off
    There were only five men left in the hollow, the Lieutenant and Croft, Red and Roth and MartinezThey settled down, each alone on a knoll bordering their hollow, searching the valleys and hill-lines about themThey watched the litter-bearers progressing over the hills to the gucci bookbag south, alternating their two teams every few minutesIn half an hour they were out of sight, and nothing remained but the hills, the mute mountain walls, and the late afternoon sky washing already into the golden hues of sunsetTo the west, perhaps a mile away, there were Japanese bivouacked in the pass, and in front of them, high up, out of sight, was the top ridgeline of Mount AnakaEach of them brooded, alone with his thoughts

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    The night wind was cool, rustling the leaves in the treesIt suggested rain, and the men cartier womens mused idly of summer nights when they had sat on their porches at sundown, watching the rain clouds gather, feeling at ease because they were under coverThe idea set off a long stream of wistful recollections, of summer and the sounds of dance music on Saturday nights, the rapt air and the smell of foliageIt made them feel rich and mellowThey thought of things they had forgotten for months: the excitement of driving a car on a country road, the headlights painting a golden cylinder through the old omega leaves; the tenderness and heat of love on a breathless nightThey burrowed more deeply into their blankets
    Wilson was becoming conscious againHe floated upward from one cloud of pain to another, groaning and mumbling unintelligiblyHis belly ached terribly, and he made feeble efforts to draw his knees up to his chestIt felt as if someone were binding his ankles, and he wrenched himself into wakefulness, the sweat pocking his face
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    6:10 pm
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    continued to insist on adding butter and gravy and sweets to
    his bills
    She was the answer to the old man's prayerHe had nothing to look
    forward to in his life except more months or years of the unchanging
    routine of sleep and meals and the weekly excursion to churchIt did
    not disturb him that his life was so featureless; he had his beloved
    wife's likeness before his gucci bookbag eyes and the certainty that, in due time, he
    would be reunited with her after deathHe spent the days and nights
    dreaming of her when he slept and turning memories of her in his
    mind
    when he was awakeIt was enough for himHe did miss
    having
    good food to eat, and in recent years it had been tasteless, cold when
    it wasn't burnt, and of a deadly monotonyHe wanted Scarlett to
    change thatHer suspicions of the old man's watches gucci motives were unfounded
    Pierre Robillard had recognized the bully in her at onceHe wanted it
    to function in his behalf now that he no longer had the strength to get
    what he wanted for himselfThe servants knew that he was too old
    and
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    seek her companionship or her love
    He wanted her to run his house the way he had once run it himselfwhich
    meant in accordance with cartier watches women his standards and subject to his dominance
    He
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    "Tell my granddaughter to come here," he said when Jerome came In
    "She ain't home yet," said the old butler with a smileHe anticipated
    the old man's anger with delightJerome hated ScarlettScarlett was
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    her grandfather she had dressed, chanel top dismissed Pansy, and escaped
    through
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    CHAPTER 12
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    6:15 pm
    @@@@@Sir Thomas set off, Edmund would go with
    @@@@@Sir Thomas set off, Edmund would go with him, and
    the others had been left in a state of wretchedness, inferior only to
    what followed the receipt of the next letters from LondonEverything
    was by that time public beyond a hope
    Rushworth, the mother, had exposure in her power, and supported
    by her mistress, was not to be silencedThe two ladies, even in the
    short time they had been together, had disagreed; and the bitterness
    of the elder against her daughter-in-law might perhaps arise almost
    395
    Jane Austen
    as much from the personal disrespect with which she had herself
    been treated as from sensibility for her son
    However that might be, she was unmanageableBut had she been
    less obstinate, or of less weight with her son, who was always guided
    by the last speaker, by the person who could get hold of and shut him
    up, the case would still have been hopeless, for MrsRushworth did
    not appear again, and there was every reason to conclude her to be
    concealed somewhere with MrCrawford, who had quitted his uncle’s
    house, as for a journey, on the very day of her absenting herself
    Sir Thomas, however, remained yet a little longer in town, in the
    hope of discovering and snatching her from farther vice, though all
    was lost on the side of character
    His present state Fanny could hardly bear to think ofThere was
    but one of his children who was not at this time a source of misery
    to himTom’s complaints had been greatly heightened by the shock
    of his sister’s conduct, and his recovery so much thrown back by it,
    that even Lady Bertram had been struck by the difference, and all
    her alarms were regularly sent off to her husband; and Julia’s elopement,
    the additional blow which had met him on his arrival in London,
    though its force had been deadened at the moment, must, she
    knew, be sorely feltHis letters expressed how
    much he deplored itUnder any circumstances it would have been
    an unwelcome alliance; but to have it so clandestinely formed, and
    such a period chosen for its completion, placed Julia’s feelings in a
    most unfavourable light, and severely aggravated the folly of her
    choiceHe called it a bad thing, done in the worst manner, and at
    the worst time; and though Julia was yet as more pardonable than
    Maria as folly than vice, he could not but regard the step she had
    taken as opening the worst probabilities of a conclusion hereafter
    like her sister’sSuch was his opinion of the set into which she had
    thrown herself
    Fanny felt for him most acutelyHe could have no comfort but in
    EdmundEvery other child must be racking his heartHis displeasure
    against herself she trusted, reasoning differently from Mrs
    Norris, would now be done awayShe should be justified
    Crawford would have fully acquitted her conduct in refusing him;
    but this, though most material to herself, would be poor consola396
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    what could her justification or her gratitude and attachment do for
    him? His stay must be on Edmund alone
    She was mistaken, however, in supposing that Edmund gave his
    father no present pa
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    Scarlett stood with the others, the course through mother-of-pearl
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    6:22 pm
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    “Your turn,” he whispered when he was at my side
    Andy was already moving forward, a shovel in his hands
    “Wait,” Jamie said in a low voice that carried in the silence“Wanda and Ian haven't said
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    There was an unhappy mutter around meMy brain felt like it was pitching and heaving inside
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    “Let's have some respect,” Jeb said, louder than JamieIt felt too loud to me
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    capital
    Others whispered that he was recapturing the Butler family portraits
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    the
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    and romantic imaginingsRhett was more myth than manAnd he
    was
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    The social rounds were just what she needed after the terrifying
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    often
    Whenever she was paying her calls, or receiving calls with Mrs
    Butler, or visiting her specially chosen friend, Anne Hampton, at the
    Confederate Home, or gossiping over coffee at the Market, Scarlett
    always wished that Rhett could see herSometimes she even looked
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    desireOh, if only he'd come home! He seemed closest to her in the
    quiet time after supper when she sat with his mother in the study and
    listened with fascination while Miss Eleanor talkedShe was always
    willing to remember things Rhett had done or said when he was a little
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    Friday, December 3rd, 2010
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    @@@@@ 185 "Thanks, but not yet!" I called "Hell,
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    185
    "Thanks, but not yet!" I called
    "Hell, come on down!" he called back"I'll give
    you a ride back in the golf cart!"
    I smiled at thatIlse had been all in favor of a
    golf cart, so I could go racing up and down the
    beach, scaring the peeps"Not in the game-plan,"
    I yelled, "but I'll get there in time! Whatever's
    in that pitcher - keep it on ice for me!"
    "You know best, muchacho!" He sketched a little
    salute"Meantime, do the day and let the day do
    you!"
    I remember all sorts of things Wireman said, but I
    believe that's the one I associate with him the
    most strongly, maybe because I heard him say it
    before I knew his name or had even shaken his hand:
    Do the day and let the day do you
    iii
    Walking wasn't all Freemantle was about that
    winter; Freemantle started to be about living
    againAnd that felt fucking greatI came to a
    decision one windy night when the waves were
    pounding and the shells were arguing instead of
    186
    just conversing: When I knew this new way of
    feeling was for real, I was going to take Reba the
    Anger-Management Doll down to the beach, douse her
    with charcoal lighter-fluid, and set her ablaze
    Give my other life a true Viking funeralWhy the
    hell not?
    In the meantime there was painting, and I took to
    it like peeps and pelicans take to waterAfter a
    week, I regretted having spent so much time
    farting around with colored pencilsI sent Ilse
    an e-mail thanking her for bullying me, and she
    sent me one back, telling me she hardly needed
    encouragement in that departmentShe also told me
    that The Hummingbirds had played a big church in
    Pawtucket, Rhode Island - sort of a tour warm-up -
    and the congregation had gone wild, clapping and
    shouting out hallelujahs"There was a good deal
    of swaying in the aisles," she wrote"It's the
    Baptist substitute for dancing
    That winter I also made the Internet in general
    and Google in particular my close personal friends,
    pecking away one-handedWhen it came to Duma Key,
    I found little more than a mapI could have dug
    deeper and harder, but something told me to leave
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    that alone for the time beingWhat I was really
    interested in were peculiar events following the
    loss of limbs, and I found a mother-lode
    I should tell you that while I took all the
    stories Google led me to with a grain of salt, I
    didn't reject even the wildest completely, because
    I never doubted that my own strange experiences
    were related to the injuries I'd suffered - the
    insult to Broca's area, my missing arm, or bothI
    could look at my sketch of Carson Jones in his
    Torii Hunter tee-shirt anytime I wanted to, and I
    was sure MrJones had purchased Ilse's engagement
    ring at ZalesLess concrete, but just as
    persuasive to me, were my increasingly surreal
    drawingsThe phone-pad doodles of my previous
    life gave no hint of the haunted sunsets I was now
    doing
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