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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    6:06 pm
    @@@@@The days of the great plantations were over
    @@@@@The days of the great
    plantations were over and there was no bringing them back"Oh,
    Scarlett, you sound just like Rhett sometimesI'd like to shake both
    of youMiss Julia pays wages just like everybody elseBut she makes
    the plantation earn enough to pay themI'm going to do the same
    thing
    at the Landing if I ever get the chanceI think it's horrible that
    Rhett won't even try Rosemary began to clatter cups and saucers on
    the tea tray"I can't remember, do you take milk or lemon,
    Scarlett?"
    "What? Oh-milk, please Scarlett had no interest in teaShe was
    reliving the fantasy she'd had before, of Tara brought back to life,
    with its fields studded with white cotton for as far as the eye could
    see and its barns full and the house just the way it had been when her
    mother was aliveYes, there was some of the long-forgotten scent of
    lemon oil in this room and brass polish and floor waxIt was faint,
    but she was sure she could smell it, in spite of the sharp resinous
    tang of the pine logs in the fireHer hand automatically accepted the
    cup of tea that Rosemary offered and held it, letting it cool while she
    daydreamedWhy not make Tara what it had been? If that old lady
    can
    run this plantation, I can run TaraWill doesn't know what Tara is,
    not the real Tara, the best plantation in Clayton County
    "A two-mule farm," he calls it nowNo, by all the saints, Tara's much
    much more than that! I could do it, too, I'll bet! Didn't Pa say a
    hundred times that I was a true O'Hara? Then I can do what he did,
    make Tara into what he made itI know how to
    keep
    books, how to squeeze out a profit where nobody else sees the
    possibilitiesWhy, practically all the places around Tara have gone
    back to scrub pineI'll bet I could buy land for next to nothing!
    Her mind leapt from one picture to another-rich fields, fat cattle; her
    old bedroom with crisp white curtains billowing into the room on a
    jasmine-scented spring breeze; riding through the woods -cleared of
    underbrush-miles of chestnut-rail fence outlining her land, stretching
    farther and farther into the red-earth countryside She had to set
    the vision aside
    Reluctantly she focused her attention on Rosemary's insistent loud
    voiceRice, rice, rice! Can't Rosemary Butler ever talk about
    anything but rice? What can Rhett possibly find to talk about with that
    old fright Miss Ashley for so long? Scarlett shifted position again on
    the setteeRhett's sister had a habit of leaning toward her listener
    when she was excited about what she was sayi
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    6:47 pm
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    reach himWe don’t know where it fits in, but wherever it is, it’s tied to Carlos
    “And you don’t want to call it for fear of exposing your possession of the number—initial codes,
    that sort of thingI understand, of gold gucci courseWhy send out an alert when it’s unnecessary? I’ll take
    care of it Krupkin looked at Jason, his expression that of an older, understanding colleague“Be
    of good and firm heart, MrBourne, as the czarists would say facing no discernible harm
    whatsoeverDespite your apprehensions, I have enormous faith in Langley’s abilitiesThey’ve
    harmed my not insignificant black gucci watch operations more than I care to dwell upon
    “I’m sure you’ve done your share of damage to them,” said Jason impatiently, glancing at the
    telephone console
    “That knowledge keeps me going
    “Thanks, Kruppie,” said Alex“In your words, you’re a fine old enemy
    “Again, shame on your parents! If they had stayed in Mother Russia, just thinkBy now you and
    I would be Tiffany Earrings running the Komitet
    “And have two lakefront houses?”
    “Are you crazy, Aleksei? We would own the entire Lake Geneva!” Krupkin turned and walked
    to the door, letting himself out with quiet laughter
    “It’s all a damned game with you people, isn’t it?” said Bourne
    “Up to a point,” agreed Alex, “but not when stolen information can lead to the loss of life—on
    both sides, chanel tote incidentallyThat’s when the weapons come out and the games are over
    “Reach Langley,” said Jason abruptly, nodding at the console“Holland’s got some explaining
    to do
    “Reaching Langley wouldn’t help—”
    “What?”
    “It’s too early; it’s barely seven o’clock in the States, but not to worry, I can bypass Conklin
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    6:11 pm
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    I liked the sound of itI interviewed with Miss
    Eastlake's lawyerHe told me the couple who'd
    previously filled the position had been called
    back to New England when the parent of one or the
    other had suffered a catastrophic accident
    "And you got the jobWhat about - ?" I pointed in
    the general direction of his templeHe was dubious enough already -
    wondered, I think, why a quilted chanel bag legal beagle from Omaha
    would want to spend a year putting an old lady to
    bed and rattling the locks on houses that are
    empty most of the time - but Miss Eastlake He
    reached out and stroked her gnarled hand"We saw
    eye-to-eye from the first, didn't we dear?"
    She only snored, but I saw the look on Wireman's
    face and felt that cold finger touch the back of
    my neck again, a little more firmly this watches gucci timeI
    458
    felt it and knew: the three of us were here
    because something wanted us hereMy knowing
    wasn't based on the kind of logic I'd grown up
    with and built my business on, but that was all
    rightHere on Duma I was a different person, and
    the only logic I needed was in my nerve-endings
    "I think the world of her, you know," Wireman said
    He picked up his napkin with a sigh, as though it
    were something gucci gucci heavy, and wiped his eyes"By the
    time I got here, all that crazy, febrile shit I
    told you about was goneI was husked out, a gray
    man in a blue and sunny clime who could only read
    the newspaper in short bursts without getting a
    blinder of a headacheI was holding onto one
    basic idea: I had a debt to payI'd
    find it and do itAfter that I didn't careMiss
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    6:14 pm
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    “I can't think about them right now
    Slowly, with a palpable reluctance that warmed some of the cold emptiness in the center of my
    body, Jared let his arms slide awayYou know how much I love youNot the same sale gucci handbags thing, in my caseI'd been divided too longIt was time to make
    something whole again, make a whole personEven if that excluded me
    The ticking seconds pulled me toward the endIt was cold when he no longer held meIt got
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    Just my imagination, of courseIt was still summer hereIt would always be summer here for
    me
    “What happens here when it rains, Jared?” I whispered“Where do people sleep?”
    It took him a moment to answer, and I could hear tears in his voice
    “We vintage omega seamaster all move into the game roomEveryone sleeps in there togetherI wondered what the atmosphere would be likeAwkward, with all the
    conflicting personalities? Or was it fun? A change? Like a slumber party?
    “Why?” he whispered
    “I just wanted to… Tiffany Necklace imagine Life and love would go onEven though it would
    happen without me, the idea brought me joyMel says she'll see you soon
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    I hurried down the tunnel, hurried away from any chance that he might, with his grateful lies,
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    6:06 pm
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    2

    THE PLATOON landed early the next morning on the back shore of AnopopeiThe rain had halted during the night, and chloe black in the dawn the air was fresh and cool, the sunlight pleasant on the beachThe men lolled about on the sand for a few minutes, watching the assault craft back off from shore and start on its return journeyIn five minutes the boat was a half mile away, but it seemed like much less, an easy swim across the bright glittering tropic waterThe men stared at it wistfully, envying the pilots who by nightfall would return to a safe bivouac and hot foodThat's the job to have, Minetta was thinking
    The kelly hermes morning still possessed the new shining quality of a minted coinThe men were thrilled only slightly by the idea that they were on an unexplored shoreThe jungle behind them looked essentially familiar; the beach, covered with fine delicate shells, was barren and isolated and would shimmer later in the heat, but now it seemed like every beach upon which they had ever landedThey sprawled about, smoking and laughing, waiting for the patrol to begin, perfectly content for the sun to dry their gucci women watch clothes
    Hearn was feeling a little tenseIn a few minutes they would begin a march over forty miles of strange country, the last ten through the Japanese rearHe turned to Croft and pointed again at the aerial map they had spread out between them on the sand"It seems to me, Sergeant, the best way is to work up that river" -- he pointed to the mouth of a stream which debouched from the jungle a few hundred yards farther down the beach -- "as far as we can, and then cut trail till we reach the kunai earring chanel g
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    6:04 pm
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    leave," she announced aloud, "and there's no way he can stop me
    The
    tall, thick, locked door silently gave her the lieThere was no point
    in fighting Rhett, she'd have to outwit him somehowThere had to be
    a
    way, and she'd find itNo need to burden herself with luggage, she
    could go with only the clothes on her backThat's what she'd do
    She'd go to a tea or black gucci watch a whist party or something and just walk away in
    the middle, straight to the horsecar and on to the depotShe had
    plenty of money for a ticket to-where? As always when Scarlett was
    heartsore, she thought of TaraThere was peace there, and new
    strength
    If only Tara was hers, all hersShe saw again the daydreams she'd
    invented when she visited Julia Ashley's plantationHow women rolex watches could
    Carreen
    have thrown away her share the way she had? Scarlett's head
    snapped up
    like a woods animal scenting waterWhat good was a share in Tara to
    the convent in Charleston? They couldn't sell it, even if there was a
    buyer, because Will would never agree, nor would sheMaybe they
    got a
    third share of any profit from the cotton crop, but how much could that
    possibly rolex submariner replica be? At best thirty or forty dollars a yearWhy, they would
    jump at a chance to sell to herRhett wanted her to stay, did he?
    Fine! She'd stay, but only if he helped her get Carreen's third of
    TaraThen, with two-thirds in her hand, she'd offer to buy out Will
    and SuellenIf Will refused to sell, she'd throw them outA stab of
    conscience halted her thoughts, but Scarlett pushed cartier love it awayWhat did
    it matter how much Will loved Tara? She loved it moreIt was the only place she cared about, the only place where anyone
    had ever cared about herWill would understand; he'd see that Tara
    was her only hopeShe ran to the bell pull and yanked on itPansy
    came to the door, tried it, turned the key and opened it
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    6:09 pm
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    “He has to reload!” whispered Bourne, with the break in the fire“Stay here!” Jason stood up
    and raced to the gate doors, crashing through them, his weapon gripped in his right hand, his body
    prone, tense, prepared to kill—if the years would permit itThey had to permit it!
    He crawled through the gate he had opened for Marie and spun on the ground to his right,
    scrambling along the fenceHe was Delta—of Saigon’s Medusa he could do it! There was no
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    The animal only yards away wants you dead—your wife dead, your children deadDead!
    It was the quickness born of pure fury that propelled him, obsessed him, and he knew that to win
    he had to win quickly, with all the speed that was in himHe crept swiftly along the fence that
    enclosed the airfield, and past the corner of the terminal, prepared for the instant of exposureThe
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    a cluster of wild shrubbery preceding two thick trees no more than thirty feet away; if he could
    reach them, the advantage was hisHe would have the “high ground,” the Jackal in the valley of
    death, if only because he was behind the assassin and unseen
    He reached the shrubberyAnd at the moment he heard a massive smashing of glass followed by
    yet another fusillade—this time so prolonged that the entire magazine had to have been emptied
    He had not been seen; the figure by the window had backed away to reload, his concentration on
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    thought Jason BourneWhere were the flares intrinsic to such an operation? Where were the alert,
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    358
    DarknessA cloud cover blocked the yellow rays of the moon; there was darknessHe vaulted
    over the fence, concealing himself behind the shrubbery, then raced to the first of the two trees
    where he could stand upright, view the scene and consider his optionsThere was a primitiveness he could not associate with the JackalThe
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    escaped from the trap
    The figure by the shattered window had spent his ammunition; he reeled back against the
    building, pulling another magazine out of his pocketJason raced out of the cover of the trees, his
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    One of the women slowly pulled her gun out and held it pointed at the ground
    The redhead spoke for the first time in a distinctly gentle tenor voice“No, it's okay, NateSee?
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    6:06 pm
    @@@@@"I'll tell you something I've often debated
    @@@@@"I'll tell you something I've often debated with myself, is it worth it?" The sad lines that extended from his nose to the corners of his mouth became deeper, more reflective, as he spoke"You know maybe we'd be happier if we didn't think so much, maybe it's better to live and let live
    "That's something I've wondered about too," Minetta saidHis thoughts, ambiguous, indefinite, troubled himHe felt himself on the edge of something profound"Sometimes I get to thinking, you know, what's it all about? There was a guy who died in the hospital in the middle of the nightSometimes I start thinking about him
    "Oh, that's terrible," Goldstein said"He died just like that with nobody near him He made a clucking sound of sympathy, and surprisingly, abruptly, a few tears mounted in his eyes
    Minetta looked at him in amazement"Jesus, what's the matter?"
    "I don't know, it's just so sadHe probably had a wife, parents"It's a funny thing about you JewsYou know you feel sorrier for yourself and sorrier for everybody else than most people do
    Roth, who had been lying beside them, quite silent until now, roused himself"I'd like to take exception to that The generalization made him apprehensive, as if a drunk were mouthing abuse at him
    "What do ya mean?" Minetta snappedRoth irritated him, reminded him that in a few minutes they would be turning back to workIt loosed the covert fear that Croft would be watching them"Who the hell invited you, Roth?"
    "I think your statement had no foundation The rebuff keyed Roth to defianceA twenty-year-old kid, he said to himself, even they think they know it allHe shook his head, and said in his slow pompous voice, "It's a big questio
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    6:04 pm
    @@@@@ Or was it? Was it some taint of
    @@@@@
    Or was it? Was it some taint of shamelessness in her blood, handed
    down from the woman who smiled at her from the painting? Scarlett
    stared at the woman above her on the wall, fascinated
    Pauline whispered in her ear"Pere wants us to leave nowSay
    good night quietly, and come with me Supper was a skimpy meal
    Hardly enough, in Scarlett's opinion, for one of the bright-plumaged
    fantasy birds painted on the plates that held it"That's because the
    cook's preparing Pere's birthday feast," Eulalie explained in a
    whisper"Four days ahead of time?" Scarlett said loudly"What's
    she doing, watching the chicken grow up?" Good heavens, she
    grumbled
    to herself, she'd be as skinny as Grandfather Robillard by Thursday if
    it was going to be like thisAfter the house was asleep she made her
    way silently down to the basement kitchen and ate her fill of the
    cornbread and buttermilk in the larderLet the servants go hungry for
    a change, she thought, pleased that her suspicions had proven
    accurate
    Pierre Robillard might keep the loyalty of his daughters when their
    stomachs were only half-filled, but his servants wouldn't stay unless
    they had plenty to eatThe next morning she ordered Jerome to bring
    her eggs and bacon and biscuits"I saw plenty in the kitchen," she
    addedAnd she got what she wantedIt made her feel much better
    about her meekness the night beforeIt's not like me to knuckle
    under
    that way, she thoughtJust because Aunt Pauline and Aunt Eulalie
    were
    shaking like leaves, that's no reason for me to let the old man scare
    meI won't let it happen againStill, she was just as glad that she
    had the servants to deal with and not her grandfatherShe could see
    that Jerome was offended, and it rather pleased herShe hadn't had a
    show-down with anyone in a long time, and she did love to win"The
    other ladies will have bacon and eggs, too," she told Jerome"And
    this isn't enough butter for my biscuits Jerome stalked off to
    report to the other servants
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    Incomprehensible, seemingly meaninglessBut I knew this was important to MelanieFrom the
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    6:11 pm
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    @@@@@Crawford,” repeated
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    eager voice, and the same close neighbourhood, he went on, reurging
    the same questions as beforeShe grew more agitated and displeased
    “How can you, sir? You quite astonish me; I wonder how you
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    “Do I astonish you?” said he“Do you wonder? Is there anything
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    you instantly all that makes me urge you in this manner, all that
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    297
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    In spite of herself, she could not help half a smile, but she said
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    “You shook your head at my acknowledging that I should not like
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    wordDid you think I ought?”
    “Perhaps, sir,” said Fanny, wearied at last into speaking—”perhaps,
    sir, I thought it was a pity you did not always know yourself as
    well as you seemed to do at that moment
    Crawford, delighted to get her to speak at any rate, was determined
    to keep it up; and poor Fanny, who had hoped to silence him
    by such an extremity of reproof, found herself sadly mistaken, and
    that it was only a change from one object of curiosity and one set of
    words to anotherHe had always something to entreat the explanation
    ofThe opportunity was too fairNone such had occurred since
    his seeing her in her uncle’s room, none such might occur again
    before his leaving MansfieldLady Bertram’s being just on the other
    side of the table was a trifle, for she might always be considered as
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    “Well,” said Crawford, after a course of rapid questions and reluctant
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    With such an opinion, no wonder thatIt is not by
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    6:11 pm
    @@@@@“The name’s Flannagan, isn’t it? That’s what
    @@@@@“The name’s Flannagan, isn’t it? That’s what comes to
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    “You’re dead!” repeated the general’s aide, screaming, his eyes bulging in panic“You bought it
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    “You kept tabs—”
    “We know I know!”
    “You’ve got connections in the right places, then
    “You’re Bourne!”
    “Obviously born again, you might say
    “I don’t believe this!”
    “Believe, FlannaganIt’s the ‘we’ we’re going to talk aboutSnake Lady, to be precise
    “You’re the one—the one Swayne called ‘Cobra’!”
    “It’s a snake
    “I don’t get it—”
    “It’s confusing
    “You’re one of us!”
    “I wasI snaked back in, as it were
    The sergeant frantically looked at the door, then the windows“How’d you get in here? Where
    are the guards, the dogs? Jesus! Where are they?”
    “The dogs are asleep in the kennels, so I gave the guards the night off? The dogs are on the grounds!”
    “Not any longerThey were persuaded to rest
    “The guards—the goddamned guards!”
    “They were persuaded to leaveWhat they think is happening here tonight is even more
    confusing
    “What’ve you done—what are you doing?”
    “I thought I just mentioned itWe’re going to talk, Sergeant FlannaganI want to get caught up
    with some old comrades
    The frightened man backed awkwardly away from the chair“You’re the maniac they called
    Delta before you turned and went in business for yourself!” he cried in a guttural whisper“There
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    99
    was a picture, a photograph—you were laid out on a slab, bloodstains all over the sheet from the
    bullet wounds; your face was uncovered, your eyes wide open, holes still bleeding on your
    forehead and your thro
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    6:41 pm
    @@@@@By late afternoon they filled the horizon,
    @@@@@By late afternoon they filled the
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    building the
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    staccato gusts of wind, smelling rain
    It would be a celebration indeed if the rains returned and the crops
    were savedThe storm broke at first dark, in a cannonade of
    deafening
    cracks of lightning that lit up the sky brighter than day, and a deluge
    of rainPeople fell to the ground and covered their headsNail
    peppered them with stones of ice as big as walnutsCries of pain and
    fear filled the moments of silence between lightning cracksScarlett
    was leaving the Big house for the music and dancing at the bonfire
    She ducked back inside, soaked to the skin in only seconds, and ran
    upstairs to find Cat
    She was looking out the window, her green eyes wide, her ears
    covered
    by her handsharriet Kelly huddled in a corner holding Billy close
    for protectionScarlett kneeled beside Cat to watch the rampage of
    natureIt lasted a half hour, then the sky was clear, star-studded,
    with a gleaming three-quarter moonThe bonfire was sodden and
    scattered; it would not be lighted this nightAnd the fields of grass
    and wheat were flattened by the hail that covered them in gray-white
    misshapen ballsA keening rose from the throats of the Irish of
    BallyharaIts piercing sound cut through the stone walls and glass
    panes into Cat's roomScarlett shuddered and drew her dark child
    closeHer hands were not enough to hold back
    the sound"We've lost our harvest," Scarlett saidShe was standing
    on a table in the middle of Ballyhara's wide street, facing the people
    of the town"But there's plenty to be savedThe grass will still
    dry to hay, and we'll have straw from the wheat stalks even though
    there'll be no kernels to grind for flourI'm going now to Trim and
    Navan and Drogheda to buy supplies for the winterThere'll be no
    hunger in Bally
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    6:18 pm
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    6:18 pm
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    Croft thought of the night the Japanese had tried to cross the riverHe felt a shiver work its way through him, and he stared for a long time at the prisonerHe felt an intense emotion toward him which made him clench his teethBut what it was, he could not have saidHe removed his canteen and took a drinkHe saw the prisoner watching him as he gulped down the water, and on an impulse he handed him the canteen"Go ahead, drink," he saidCroft gazed at him as he swallowed with long eager draughts
    "I'm a sonofabitch," Gallagher said"What got in ya?"
    Croft did not answerHe was staring at the prisoner, who had finished drinkingThere were a few tears of joy in the Jap's face and he smiled suddenly and pointed to his breast pocketCroft extracted a wallet, and opened itThere was a picture of the Japanese soldier in civilian dress and beside him was his wife and two little children with round doll facesThe Japanese soldier pointed to himself and then made two gestures with his hand above the ground to indicate how tall his children had grown
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    6:34 pm
    @@@@@We'll call on her this morning She reached
    @@@@@We'll call on her this morning She
    reached for the bowl of butter"Would you please pass the syrup,
    Scarlett?" Scarlett's hand reached out automatically, but she knocked
    over the pitcher, spilling the syrupShe wasn't ready
    to see Rhett's mother yet
    She'd only met Eleanor Butler once, at Bonnie's funeral, and she had
    almost no memory of her, except that MrsButler was very tall and
    dignified and imposingly silentI know I'll have to see her, Scarlett
    thought, but not now, not yetHer heart pounded and
    she dabbed clumsily with her napkin at the spreading stickiness on the
    tablecloth"Scarlett, dear, don't rub the stain into the cloth like
    that Pauline put her hand on Scarlett's wristScarlett jerked her
    hand awayHow could anyone worry about some silly old tablecloth at
    a
    time like this? "I'm sorry, Auntie," she managed to say"That's all
    right, dearIt's just that you're practically putting a hole through
    it, and we have so few of our nice things left Eulalie's voice
    faded mournfullyScarlett clenched her teethShe wanted to
    scream
    What did a tablecloth matter when she had to face the mother Rhett
    practically worshipped?
    Suppose he'd told her the truth about why he'd left Atlanta, that he
    had walked out on the marriage? "I'd better go look at my clothes,"
    Scarlett said through the constriction in her throat
    "Pansy'll have to press the wrinkles out of whatever I'm going to
    wear She had to get away from Pauline and Eulalie, she had to pull
    herself together"I'll tell Susie to start heating the irons,"
    Eulalie offeredShe rang the silver bell near her plate
    "She'd better wash out this cloth before she starts on anything else,"
    Pauline said"Once a stain sets-"
    "You might observe, Sister, that I
    have not yet finished my breakfastSurely you don't expect me to let
    it get cold while Susie clears everything off the ta
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    6:08 pm
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    Bourne sat on the corner of the desk, the two old men on a couch in front of him, his brother-inlaw
    standing by a window fronting the beach in the unoccupied villa
    “Why would I—why would we—lie to you, monsieur?” asked the hero of France
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    Friday, December 3rd, 2010
    6:10 pm
    @@@@@ The truth is in the details 2 - Big
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    i
    65
    Kamen's geographical worked, but when it came to
    fixing what was wrong with my head, I think the
    Florida part was coincidentalIt's true that I
    lived there, but I never really lived thereNo,
    Kamen's geographical worked because of Duma Key,
    and Big PinkFor me, those places came to
    constitute their own worldPaul on November tenth with hope in my
    heart but no real expectationsKathi Green the
    Rehab Queen came to see me offShe kissed me on
    the mouth, hugged me hard, and whispered "May all
    your dreams come true, Eddie
    "Thanks, Kathi," I saidI was touched even though
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    child, sitting in the moonlit living room of the
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    I could live without
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    to see you in mouse ears
    "I will," I said, but I never got to Disney World
    Sea World, Busch Gardens, or Daytona Speedway,
    eitherPaul, flying in a Lear 55
    (successful retirement has its privileges), it was
    twenty-four and spitting the first snowflakes of
    another long northern winterWhen I landed in
    Sarasota it was eighty-five and sunnyEven
    crossing the tarmac to the private air terminal,
    still clumping along on my trusty red crutch, I
    thought I could feel my hip saying thank you
    When I look back on that time, it's with the
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    horror, regret, and the deep sweetness only those
    who've been near death can knowI think it's how
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    barefoot down the path to where we are now, in our
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    shut gate with his fiery sword? SureI think they
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    they had lost, with its sweet water and kindhearted
    animalsAnd its snake, of course
    ii
    67
    There's a charm-bracelet of keys lying off the
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