As I put my ownphone back into its cradle, it occurred to me that I had lived more inthe last five days than I had in the last four years. The community had had a general store and anactual name, Halo Bay. Mattie doesn't either, because they're fabrications. He bit intohis sandwich--they come tucked into long sub rolls--and looked at me,surprised.
I shook my head, sending back a message that neither of us was readyquite yet. This was barely out of my mouth when a hailstone the size of a smalllemon struck my side of the windshield a I hadquestions, but I didn't want just to nibble around the edges of thesubject and be coy. Most of the Arlens left the next day.
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