Noonan, would youlike me to repeat the question? No, I said, wondering where he'd gotten his information. Two kids walked past me sharing a paper cone of cotton candy. And I cried out of fear, as well, as we do when some awful experience isfinally over or when some terrible accident has been narrowly averted. Mattie strokedher hair, soothing the small head until it lay against the Kmart smocktop.
I watched as it pawed clumsily to a blank page, then seizedthe pencil which lay nearby. Some flyplace, I would have bet my life on that. I turned to leave the room, and a sudden sigh of cool air, amazing inthat heat, rushed past the sides of my face. Anderson had already raised three chil-dren who had grown up and left home before Charley came, so that she couldn't seem to keep her mind on Charley.
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