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don bowling shoes t think the stories that were spread were true, but my mother would also say where there s smoke there's fire . I tried to be bowling shoes practical. And fortunately for me, each man needed a new pair every year, if not more frequently. I guess it was watching my grandfather slaughter all of those pigs when I was a girl. My new sandals were beautiful. Horace left me alone and went to talk to the state trouper. I found the shoes, gathered together some other things for her, and laid them out on the bed. I crunched over the thin layer of frozen snow and slush, picked up the shoe and brought it back to Marie. She d been
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in front of me, since I left Deep Cove, heading north. Junior s parents, some of the neighbors, and Marie s mother were standing in the living room, all zombie-eyed. It seemed foolish now. She was wearing only one of the low, black, patent leather flats I d sold her in the fall. I don t
bowling shoes feel no pulse. I don t dare move her, just in case there s somethin they can do. I can get my mother to do these things, he said. I looked at myself in the mirror, thinking it
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