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Here they were lined up in a semicircle along the wal , the young grandduchesses Here they were lined up in a semicirc It wasn't just that myfather-in-law was looking for dirty laundry in my closets, either. The autumn coolhad left the air and it was hot again--stifling. Rommie had set the boombox up on the trailer's backstep, and it spun out a haze of late-eighties and early-nineties music:U2, Tea

Once out in the street Charley wanted to go back to get his hat and coat. all those thingssaid trailer-trash to me. My legs won't move. No ghosts, huh? I said, as if disappointed.