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I thought she glowed in the summer light,her skin in smooth, tanned contrast to the white dress she had probablybought at one of the discount stores, and I understood that I loved her. Devore cut both his hands on broken glass, Dad said, but he got thesled. Eveline felt as excited as a child the afternoon when they were al packed and ready to go and had bought-306-wagon lit reservations and gotten their transport orders signed. His eyesgave an ugly little gleam, as if he knew a feature film had never beenmade from one of my books--only a

if I went that way, I'd end up raising a little girl inthe early years of the twentieth century, trying to make a living bywriting penny dread-fuls and dime novels. I thought the something else wassurprised anger. I didn't like it much,but I suppose I understood it. Al that summer Charley washed cars and drainedtransmissions and relined brakes.