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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    8:04 am
    @@@@@I don't have any training “Your history is
    @@@@@I don't have any training
    “Your history is better than nothingThings we human folks ought to know, seeing as we live
    in a more populated universe than we were aware of
    “But I wasn't a real teacher,” I told him, desperateDid he honestly think anyone wanted to
    hear my voice, let alone listen to my stories? “I was sort of an honorary professor, almost a guest
    lecturerThey only wanted me because… well, because of the story that goes along with my
    name
    “That's the next one I was going to ask for,” Jeb said complacently“We can talk about your
    teaching experience laterNow–why did they call you Wanderer? I've heard a bunch of odd
    ones, Dry Water, Fingers in the Sky, Falling Upward–all mixed in, of course, with the Pams and
    the JimsI tell you, it's the kind of thing that can drive a man crazy with curiosity
    I waited till I was sure he was done to begin“Well, the way it usually works is that a soul will
    try out a planet or two–two's the average–and then they'll settle in their favorite placeThey just
    move to new hosts in the same species on the same planet when their body gets close to death
    It's very disorienting moving from one kind of body to the nextMost souls really hate that
    Some never move from the planet they are born onOccasionally, someone has a hard time
    finding a good fitThey may try three planetsI met a soul once who'd been to five before he'd
    settled with the BatsI liked it there–I suppose that's the closest I've ever come to choosing a
    planetIf it hadn't been for the blindness…”
    “How many planets have you lived on?” Jamie asked in a hushed voiceSomehow, while I'd
    been talking, his hand had found its way into mine
    “This is my ninth,” I told him, squeezing his fingers gently
    “Wow, nine!” he breathed
    “That's why they wanted me to teach
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    8:04 am
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    rolex submariner replica,cartier must 21,prada milano,chloe bag,omega moon watch@@@@@Even here they could never see for more than fifty or a hundred feet ahead, and the early stages of the operation were conducted by groping movements of tiny groups of menThe peninsula was only a few miles wide at this point, and the General had two thousand men stretched across it, but there was little connection between themBetween one company of a hundred and eighty men and another, there was room for any number of Japanese troops to slip throughEven when the terrain was comparatively clear, the companies would not often try to set up a partial lineAfter a week of fumbling through the jungle, the military concept of a connected line could seem no more than a conceptThere were Japanese rolex submariner replica left everywhere behind the front troops, and all through the jungle, in every part of the area that the General had captured on the peninsula there were subsidiary ambushes and skirmishes, until the mouthpiece of the ocarina seemed covered with bursThere was an intense and continuous confusion
    The General had expected this, had even made his allowances for itTwo-thirds of his force of six thousand men were kept in the rear working on supplies, and threshing the jungle in security patrolsHe had known from intelligence reports before the campaign began that the Japanese had at least five thousand men against him, and of these, his men had not come in contact with more than a few hundredThe cartier must 21 Japanese commander, General Toyaku, was obviously holding them for a protracted defenseAs if in assurance, the scattered air reconnaissance that was granted Cummings occasionally from Army Headquarters, brought back photos which showed a powerful defense line set up by Toyaku on a front which ran from the main mountain range of Anopopei to the seaWhen Cummings came to the base of the peninsula he would have to pivot his troops through a ninety-degree arc to the left and face the defense line Toyaku had built
    For this reason, Cummings did not mind the leisureliness of his advanceOnce his troops had reached the Toyaku Line it would be essential to keep them well supplied, and for that he would need prada milano a road which could keep pace with his menOn the second day after the invasion, the General had reasoned quite correctly that the main battles with the Japanese would occur miles awayHe had immediately diverted a thousand men to building a roadThey started on an improved trail which the Japanese had used for motor transport from the airfield to the beach, and the division engineers widened it, sodding the top surface with gravel from the beachBut beyond the airfield the trails were rudimentary, and after the first week still another thousand men were assigned to the road
    It took them three days to build each mile, and the front troops drew constantly aheadBy the end of three weeks the chloe bag division task force had moved fifteen miles up the peninsula and the road reached only halfway to themAlong the rest of the route, supplies were carried up by pack trains, and almost a thousand more men were occupied with that
    The campaign progressed uneventfully from day to day, no longer being mentioned in news broadcastsThe division's casualties were light, and the front had finally achieved some formThe General watched the constant activity of men and trucks out of all the bivouacs in the jungle adjacent to the beach, and contented himself temporarily with cleaning out the Japanese who were left in the rear, with building the road, and with moving his front forward at an easy and calculated omega moon watch rate
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:06 am
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    omega seamaster gold,knock off louis vuitton,louis vuitton prices,gucci horsebit hobo,Cartier watch tank@@@@@“Let me have the pleasure of finishing
    that speech to your ladyship,” said he“I shall find it immediately
    And by carefully giving way to the inclination of the leaves, he did
    find it, or within a page or two, quite near enough to satisfy Lady
    Bertram, who assured him, as soon as he mentioned the name of
    Cardinal Wolsey, that he had got the very speechNot a look or an
    offer of help had Fanny given; not a syllable for or againstAll her
    attention was for her workShe seemed determined to be interested
    by nothing elseBut taste was too strong in herShe could not abstract
    her mind five minutes: she was forced to listen; his reading
    was capital, and her pleasure in good reading extremeTo good omega seamaster gold reading,
    however, she had been long used: her uncle read well, her cousins
    all, Edmund very well, but in MrCrawford’s reading there was
    a variety of excellence beyond what she had ever met withThe
    292
    Mansfield Park
    King, the Queen, Buckingham, Wolsey, Cromwell, all were given
    in turn; for with the happiest knack, the happiest power of jumping
    and guessing, he could always alight at will on the best scene, or the
    best speeches of each; and whether it were dignity, or pride, or tenderness,
    or remorse, or whatever were to be expressed, he could do
    it with equal beautyIt was truly dramaticHis acting had first taught
    Fanny what pleasure a play might give, and his reading brought all
    his acting before her knock off louis vuitton again; nay, perhaps with greater enjoyment,
    for it came unexpectedly, and with no such drawback as she had
    been used to suffer in seeing him on the stage with Miss Bertram
    Edmund watched the progress of her attention, and was amused
    and gratified by seeing how she gradually slackened in the needlework,
    which at the beginning seemed to occupy her totally: how it
    fell from her hand while she sat motionless over it, and at last, how
    the eyes which had appeared so studiously to avoid him throughout
    the day were turned and fixed on Crawford—fixed on him for minutes,
    fixed on him, in short, till the attraction drew Crawford’s upon
    her, and the book was closed, and the charm was brokenThen she
    was louis vuitton prices shrinking again into herself, and blushing and working as hard
    as ever; but it had been enough to give Edmund encouragement for
    his friend, and as he cordially thanked him, he hoped to be expressing
    Fanny’s secret feelings too
    “That play must be a favourite with you,” said he; “you read as if
    you knew it well
    “It will be a favourite, I believe, from this hour,” replied Crawford;
    “but I do not think I have had a volume of Shakespeare in my hand
    before since I was fifteenI once saw Henry the Eighth acted, or I
    have heard of it from somebody who did, I am not certain which
    But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing howIt
    is a part of an Englishman’s constitutionHis thoughts and beauties
    are gucci horsebit hobo so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate
    with him by instinctNo man of any brain can open at a good
    part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning
    immediately
    “No doubt one is familiar with Shakespeare in a degree,” said
    Edmund, “from one’s earliest yearsHis celebrated passages are
    quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all
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    Jane Austen
    talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions;
    but this is totally distinct from giving his sense as you gave itTo
    know him in bits and scraps is common enough; to know him pretty
    thoroughly is, perhaps, not uncommon; but to read him well aloud
    is no everyday Cartier watch tank tale
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    8:12 am
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    “Then let’s start with why ‘people’ would come out here asking questionsMy superiors want to
    knowDon’t worry, you won’t be involved, nobody’s interested in youYou’re just a security
    guard
    “That’s all I am, mister!” interrupted the frightened man“Then why did you tell Barbie Jo what
    you did? That people would someday come out here asking questions
    “Hell, I’m not sureJest so many crazy things, y’know?”
    “No, I don’t knowLike Tiffany Bracelets what?”
    “Well, like the brass-plated screamer, the generalHe’s a big wheel, right? He’s got Pentagon
    cars and drivers and even helicopters whenever he wants ’em, right? He owns this place, right?”
    “So?”
    “So that big mick of a sergeant—a lousy master sergeant—orders him around like he wasn’t
    toilet-trained, y’know what I mean? And that big-titty wife of his he’s got a thing goin’ with the
    hulk and she don’t give a damn who knows gold gucci watch itIt’s all crazy, y’see what I mean?”
    “I see a domestic mess, but I’m not sure it’s anybody’s businessWhy would people come out
    here and ask questions?”
    “Why are you out here, man? You figured there was a meetin’ tonight, didn’t you?”
    “A meeting?”
    “Them fancy limousines with the chauffeurs and the big shots, right? Well, you picked the
    wrong nightThe dogs are out and they’re never let out when there’s a meetin’
    Bourne paused, then seamaster omega spoke as he approached the guard“We’ll continue this in the cart,” he said
    with authority“I’ll crouch down and you’ll do exactly what I tell you to do
    “You promised me I could get out of here!”
    “You can, you willBoth you and the other fellow making the roundsThe gates over there, are
    they on an alarm?”
    “Not when the dogs are looseIf those hounds see something out on the road and get excited,
    they’d jump up and set it dior bag off
    “Where’s the alarm panel?”
    “There are two of ’emOne’s in the sergeant’s place, the other’s in the front hall of the house
    As long as the gates are closed, you can turn it on
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    97
    “Where are we goin’?”
    “I want to see every dog on the premises
    Twenty-one minutes later, the remaining five attack dogs drugged and carried to their kennels,
    Bourne unlatched the entrance gate and let the two guards chanel fake outside
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    8:04 am
    @@@@@But demme, he'd Arthur like a brother even
    @@@@@But demme, he'd Arthur like a brother even if he was a foolNo
    man ever had a friend than Arthur was to him
    Ne had wept, yes, ma'am, acú wept when Arthur hanged himself
    Ne'd
    always known he was a fool, but who could have dreamed he'd be
    such a
    fool as that? Arthur loved that place, he gave his shirt to it, and in
    the end his lifeIt was criminal that Constance abandoned it the way
    she didShe should have preserved it as a memorial to ArthurThe
    marquess was grateful to Scarlett for doing what Arthur's own widow
    didn't have the decency to do"I'd like to shake your hand again,
    Mistress O'hara Scarlett surrendered it to himWhat was this old
    man telling her? The young lord of Ballyhara hadn't hanged himself, a
    man from the town had dragged him to the tower and hung himThe marquess must be wrongOld people got things mixed
    up
    in their memories Ne'd only been a child, he
    only knew what people said, he wasn't even in Ballyhara then, the
    family was at AdamstownThe marquess wasn't in Ballyhara either,
    he
    only knew what people said
    It's all too complicated
    Scarlett smiled sweetly at the marquess and retrieved her handShe
    tucked it in Morland's elbow"Bart, I'm so glad to see youI looked
    for you at every single party of the Season and never found you
    "I passed this yearTwo mares in foal outrank a viceroy every time
    Now have you been?" It had been an aeon since she'd last seen him,
    and
    so much had happenedScarlett hardly knew where to begin"I know
    what interests you, Bart," she said"One of the hunters you helped
    me
    buy is outjumping half Moon
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    8:04 am
    @@@@@Then I closed my eyes “Don't happen to have
    @@@@@Then I closed my eyes
    “Don't happen to have it on me,” Jeb drawled
    I peeked through narrowed eyes as Jared whirled to assess the truth of Jeb's claim
    Jared's breath whistled angrily through his nostrilsHe took another step
    toward me“It will be slower this way, thoughIt would be more humane if you were to find
    that gun fast
    “Please, Jared, let's talk,” Ian said, planting his feet firmly as he spoke, already knowing the
    answer
    “I think there's been too much talk,” Jared growled“Jeb left this up to me, and I've made my
    decision
    Jeb cleared his throat noisilyJared spun halfway around to look at him again“You made the rule, Jeb
    “Well, now, that's true
    Jared turned back toward me“Ian, get out of my way
    “Well, well, hold on a sec,” Jeb went on“If you recall, the rule was that whoever the body
    belonged to got to make the decision
    A vein in Jared's forehead pulsed visibly“And?”
    “Seems to me like there's someone here with a claim just as strong as yours
    Jared stared straight ahead, processing thisAfter a slow moment, understanding furrowed his
    browHe looked down at the boy still hanging on his arm
    All the joy had drained from Jamie's face, leaving it pale and horrorstruck
    “You can't, Jared,” he ch
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    8:04 am
    @@@@@He was so wet that his green fatigues looked
    @@@@@He was so wet that his green fatigues looked black
    The bottom of the ocean would look like this, he told himselfThere were subterranean storms that he had read about, and this must be like themApart from his awe, and his concern that the tent should remain up, Goldstein was watching the storm with a fascinated interestProbably the world had been something like this when it first began to cool, he thought, and felt a deep excitement as if he were witnessing creationIt was silly to think about the tent in the same moment, but he could not help himselfHe was convinced that it would remain standing; the stakes were three feet deep, and the soil was the clay type that could take extreme stressesIf he had only known a storm like this was coming, he could have built a shelter that would last through anything, and he could lie underneath it, completely dry without the slightest worryGoldstein was annoyed at RidgesHe should have told him what kind of storms there were; he was a veteran and he should have been preparedAlready Goldstein was planning the next tent he would buildHis shoes had filled with water and he worked his toes to warm his feetSqueegee action, he thought; probably the man who invented the squeegee had an experience like mine
    Ridges was watching the typhoon with panic and acceptanceMighty sponges o' God swelling, he said to himselfThe foliage of the jungle was churning turbulently, and the leaden-green sky painted it with greens so varied and brilliant that Ridges thought it looked like the Garden of EdenHe felt the throbbing of the jungle as a part of himself, the earth, which had turned to a golden mud, seemed alive to himHe kept looking at the fantastic green of the jungle and then at the orange-brown earth, febrile and pulsing as though the rain were cutting wounds into itRidges flinched before the power of it
    The Lord giveth and He taketh away, Ridges thought solemnlyStorms were a basic part of his life; he had come to fear them, to bear with them, and finally to expect themHe saw his father's reddened wrinkled face with the sad quiet blue eyes"I'll tell you, Ossie," his father had said, "a man works and he toils, he puts in his good sweat tryin' to pull out a livin' from the land, and when all his work is done, if the good Lord sees it fitten, it's taken away in a storm Perhaps that was the deepest truth in Ridges's nature; it seemed to him that all his life, he and his father had struggled with barren land and insects and blights, had worked their fields with one aging mule, and often as not, their work had been ruined in one black night
    He had helped Goldstein pound in the stakes because you helped your neighbor when he asked for it, and Ridges had decided the man you bunked with, even if he was a stranger, was still your neighbor; but secretly he had felt that their attempts to secure the tent would be usele
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    8:04 am
    @@@@@Lady Bertram’s hour of good luck cameWithin
    @@@@@Lady
    Bertram’s hour of good luck cameWithin a few days from the receipt
    of Edmund’s letter, Fanny had one from her aunt, beginning
    thus—
    “My Dear Fanny,—I take up my pen to communicate some very
    alarming intelligence, which I make no doubt will give you much
    concern”
    This was a great deal better than to have to take up the pen to
    acquaint her with all the particulars of the Grants’ intended journey,
    for the present intelligence was of a nature to promise occupation
    for the pen for many days to come, being no less than the
    dangerous illness of her eldest son, of which they had received notice
    by express a few hours before
    Tom had gone from London with a party of young men to
    Newmarket, where a neglected fall and a good deal of drinking had
    brought on a fever; and when the party broke up, being unable to
    move, had been left by himself at the house of one of these young
    men to the comforts of sickness and solitude, and the attendance
    only of servantsInstead of being soon well enough to follow his
    friends, as he had then hoped, his disorder increased considerably,
    and it was not long before he thought so ill of himself as to be as
    ready as his physician to have a letter despatched to Mansfield
    “This distressing intelligence, as you may suppose,” observed her
    ladyship, after giving the substance of it, “has agitated us exceedingly,
    and we cannot prevent ourselves from being greatly alarmed
    and apprehensive for the poor invalid, whose state Sir Thomas fears
    may be very critical; and Edmund kindly proposes attending his
    brother immediately, but I am happy to add that Sir Thomas will
    not leave me on this distressing occasion, as it would be too trying
    for meWe shall greatly miss Edmund in our small circle, but I trust
    and hope he will find the poor invalid in a less alarming state than
    might be apprehended, and that he will be able to bring him to
    Mansfield shortly, which Sir Thomas proposes should be done, and
    thinks best on every account, and I flatter myself the poor sufferer
    will soon be able to bear the removal without material inconvenience
    or injuryAs I have little doubt of your feeling for us, my
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    Mansfield Park
    dear Fanny, under these distressing circumstances, I will write again
    very soon
    Fanny’s feelings on the occasion were indeed considerably more
    warm and genuine than her aunt’s style of writingShe felt truly for
    them allTom dangerously ill, Edmund gone to attend him, and
    the sadly small party remaining at Mansfield, were cares to shut out
    every other care, or almost every otherShe could just find selfishness
    enough to wonder whether Edmund had written to Miss
    Crawford before this summons came, but no sentiment dwelt long
    with her that was not purely affectionate and disinterestedly anxious
    Her aunt did not neglect her: she wrote again and again; they
    were receiving frequent accounts from Edmund, and these accounts
    were as regularly transmitted to Fanny, in the same diffuse style,
    and the same medley of trusts, hopes, and fears, all following and
    producing each other at haphazardIt was a sort of playing at being
    frightenedThe sufferings which Lady Bertram did not see had little
    power over her fancy; and she wrote very comfortably about agitation,
    and anxiety, and poor invalids, till Tom was actually conveyed to
    Mansfield, and her own eyes had beheld his altered appearanceThen
    a letter which she had been previously preparing for Fanny was finished
    in a different style, in the language of real feeling and alarm;
    then she wrote as she might have spoken“He is just come, my dear
    Fanny, and is taken upstairs; and I am so shocked to see him, that I do
    not know what to doI am sure he has been very illPoor Tom! I am
    quite grieved for him, and very much frightened, and so is Sir Thomas;
    and how glad I should be if you were here to comfort meBut
    Sir Thomas hopes he will be better to-morrow, and says we must
    consider his journey
    The real solicitude now awakened in the maternal bosom was not
    soon overTom’s extreme impatience to be removed to Mansfield,
    and experience those comforts of home and family which had been
    little thought of in uninterrupted health, had probably induced his
    being conveyed thither too early, as a return of fever came on, and
    for a week he was in a more alarming state than everThey were all
    very seriously frightenedLady Bertram wrote her daily terrors to
    her niece, who might now be said to live upon letters, and pass all
    her time between suffering from that of to-day and looking forward
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    to to-morrow’sWithout any particular affection for her eldest cousin,
    her tenderness of heart made her feel that she could not spare him,
    and the purity of her principles added yet a keener solicitude, when
    she considered how little useful, how little self-denying his life had
    (apparently) be
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    8:14 am
    @@@@@Swayne’s wife! They would know, they had to
    @@@@@Swayne’s wife! They would know, they had to know!
    Bourne lurched for the telephone on the desk; it began ringing before his hand touched it
    “Alex?”
    “No, Br’er Rabbit, it’s just an old friend, and I didn’t realize we were so free with names
    “We’re not, we shouldn’t be,” said Jason rapidly, imposing a control on himself he could barely
    exercise“Something happened a moment ago—I found somethingWhat can I do for you?”
    “I need you—out here where I amAre you free?”
    “Well, let’s see Cactus chuckled as he spoke“There are several board meetings I should
    rightfully attend, and the White House wants me for a power breakfastWhen and where, Br’er
    Rabbit?”
    “Not alone, old friendI want three or four others with youIs that possible?”
    “I don’t knowWhat did you have in mind?”
    “That fellow who drove me into town after I saw youAre there any other like-minded citizens
    in the neighborhood?”
    “Most are doin’ time, frankly, but I suppose I could dig around the refuse and pull up a few
    What for?”
    “Guard dutyIt’s pretty simple reallyYou’ll be on the phone and they’ll be behind locked gates
    telling people that it’s private property, that visitors aren’t welcomeEspecially a few honkies
    probably in limousines
    “Now, that might appeal to the brothers
    “Call me back and I’ll give you directions Bourne disconnected the line and immediately
    released the bar for a dial toneHe touched the numbers for Conklin’s phone in Vienna
    “Yes?” answered Alex
    “The doctor was right and I let our Snake Lady executioner get away!”
    “Swayne’s wife, you mean?”
    “No, but she and her fast-talking sergeant know who it was—they had to know who was here!
    Pick them up and hold themThey lied to me, so the deal’s offWhoever staged this gruesome
    ‘suicide’ had orders from high up in Medus
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    8:04 am
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    Scarlett's mind during the following weeksShe was restless, and on
    bright mornings she raced alone over the routes they'd followed
    togetherWhen she and Cat decorated the tree, she remembered the
    pleasure of dressing up for dinner the night he first came to
    BallyharaAnd when she pulled the wishbone of the Christmas goose
    with Cat, she wished that he would return from London soon
    Sometimes
    she closed her eyes and tried to remember the way it felt to have
    his omega seamaster vintage arms around her, but every attempt made her tearfully angry,
    because
    Rhett's face and Rhett's embrace and Rhett's laughter always filled her
    memory insteadThat was because she'd known Luke such a short
    time,
    she told herself
    In time his presence would blot out the memories of Rhett, that was
    only
    logicalOn New Year's Eve there was a great racket, and Colum
    marched
    in beating the bodhran followed by two fiddlers and Rosaleen
    Fitzpatrick playing the bonesScarlett screeched with joyful rolex watches women surprise
    and ran to hug him"I'd given up hope that you'd ever come home,
    ColumNow it's bound to be a good year, with a beginning like
    this
    She got Cat up from her sleep, and they saw in the first moments of
    1880 with music and love all around them
    New Year's Day began with laughter as the harm brack shattered
    against
    the wall, showering crumbs and currants all over Cat's dancing body
    and
    upturned, open-mouthed faceBut afterwards the sky darkened with
    clouds, and an icy wind tore cartier watch replica at Scarlett's shawl when she made the
    rounds of New Year's visits in her towntook a drink in every house,
    liquor, not tea, and talked politics the men until Scarlett thought she
    would scream"Will you not come to the bar, then, Scarlett darling,
    and a glass to a brave New Year and new hope for the Irish?" said
    after the last cottage had been visitedcc Scarlett's nostrils flared
    at the smell of whiskey on himI'm tired and cold and I'm going
    home
    Come with me and we have a quiet time by cartier love the fire
    "A quiet time is what I dread most, Scarlett aroonQuiet lets L
    darkness creep into a man's soul
    Colum walked unsteadily the door of Kennedy's bar, and Scarlett
    trudged
    slowly up the to the Big house, holding her shawl close around her
    Her red - and the blue and yellow stripes on her stockings looked drab
    in the cold gray lightNot coffee and a hot bath, she promised herself
    as she open the heavy front doorShe heard a stifled giggle when
    tered the hall, and her heart women rolex tightened
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    8:04 am
    @@@@@ “Walter was the best and brightest of what
    @@@@@
    “Walter was the best and brightest of what is human,” he said, and scattered his sand into the
    holeIt fell for a long time before I heard it hiss against the bottom
    Ian looked down at me
    It was absolutely silent in the starlit nightEven the wind was calmI whispered, but I knew my
    voice carried to everyone
    “There was no hatred in your heart,” I whispered“That you existed is proof that we were
    wrongWe had no right to take your world from you, WalterI hope your fairytales are trueI
    hope you find your Gladdie
    I let the rocks trickle through my fingers and waited until I heard them fall with a soft patter
    onto Walter's body, obscured in the deep, dark grave
    Andy started to work as soon as Ian took the first step back, shoveling from a mound of pale,
    dusty earth that was piled a few feet farther into the grottoThe shovel load hit with a thump
    rather than a whisperThe sound made me cringe
    Aaron stepped past us with another shovelIan turned slowly and carried me away to make
    room for themThe heavy thuds of falling dirt echoed behind usLow voices began to murmur
    I heard footsteps as people milled and huddled to discuss the funeral
    I really looked at Ian for the first time as he walked back to the dark mat where it lay on the
    open dirt–out of place, not belongingIan's face was streaked with pale dust, his expression
    wearyI'd seen his face like that beforeI couldn't pinpoint the memory before Ian had laid me
    on the mat again, and I was distractedWhat was I supposed to do out here in the open? Sleep?
    Doc was right behind us; he and Ian both knelt down in the dust beside m
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    8:13 am
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