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"I can't believe you like a
girl who doesn't like ramen,"

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Kah is saying.

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He's just come out of his
bedroom in dry clothes

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and is toweling his hair.

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The trailer smells like dog.

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Roscoe, because he was so wet,
has been allowed in to get dry.

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"Was this guy a good watch dog,"
Kah asked when he came home.

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Roscoe and Dottie chow
down on hamburgers

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that got soaked through
when Kah braved and then got

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stuck in the flooded ravine.

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"Really, Sarah, make
it so good," Lin says.

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Dripping wet, he's rummaging
in the kitchen for a pan.

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"Kah, he thinks it's spaghetti.

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He smothers it in
Kraft Parmesan.

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Me, I know how to bring out
the natural ramen flavors.

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What you got to do--" I go into
the bedroom and close the door.

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After a bit, Lin comes in.

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He pulls off his wet clothes
and tosses them in the corner,

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pulling on a pair of boxers.

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"So you going to
talk to me," he says.

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The curtain over the bed
flaps, the pillows getting wet.

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He knee walks across the
mattress, closes the window,

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lies down, and I scoot
closer to my side.

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"You had to go for
burgers," I say.

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"I knew you were hungry.

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I didn't see how we were
going to get to the fair."

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I reach over and turn off
the bucking Bronco lamp,

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because I can't stand
to see this room.

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Rain bullets the tin roof.

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"Lin," I say, "Your
brother's crazy."

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"Well, that's a fact."

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"He trapped me, his dogs did.

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They scared me."

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I feel his hand grope
for mine, and he

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says he's sorry, that they
probably wouldn't hurt me.

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But he's sorry all the same.

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And I wonder how they
came from the same family.

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I think of the last time
it rained like this.

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Out of nowhere, a clear
blue sky, a storm comes up.

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We were hiking,
and suddenly, he's

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pulling me out of frothing mud.

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I didn't even hear
it, the flood.

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And he's saying, "I don't
want to lose you, Sarah.

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I just found you."

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Then we're on high
ground, hail pelting us.

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We laughed so hard, and
then he's inside me,

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so easy in summer shorts.

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The best time I ever had.

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I inch closer to him,
feeling the warmth of him.

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But it wasn't just the dogs.

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I tell him about the phone.

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He laughs.

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"It wasn't funny."

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"It just means he likes you."

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I yank my hand away.

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I hear him take a breath,
hold it, then blow it out.

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Suddenly, he crows,
"Kaaah, kaah!"

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"Shut the fuck up," Kah
yells from the living room,

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and Lin laughs again.

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"Kah, he's a softie.

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Did I ever tell you
how he got his name?"

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"I don't care how."

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"Sure, you do."

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He turns facing me.

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His real name's Carl.

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I blink, and blink,
and try not to cry.

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"We were kids playing assassin
and spy right near here.

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You play that when
you were a kid?

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It's time to go, and he's
the big brother, you know.

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He's responsible.

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So he's calling me, and I'm
right there in plain sight,

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just lying on the bluff.

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But I'm tan.

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I'm bluff-colored.

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Every time he calls my
name, I go, Kaah, kaah."

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"Shut the fuck up," Kah yells.

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"It embarrasses him," Lin says.

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"See, he thought he lost me."

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Finally, he drops to his
knees and just bawls.

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"Really, he's a softie."

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"Lin, I can't sleep here."

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"We don't have a
choice tonight."

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"Tomorrow?

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He's sitting in that chair,
he can hear everything we do."

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"He doesn't care what we do."

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"Oh, God.

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You don't even see it.

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Every time I'm here,
the way he looks at me

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in the morning when we get up."

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"Sarah, it's flooding.

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We can't get out."

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"He's a psycho!"

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He moves away,
flipping onto his back.

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"He's my brother," he
says, his voice gone hard.

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And I think I will never enter
this cracker box trailer again.

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After a bit, he says,
"You got to like him.

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I got to stick it out here.

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This is a good opportunity
Kah is giving me.

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I'm 25 years old.

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I've got a GED.

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Who else is going to give
me a chance like this?

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We could build our own
house someday, you and me.

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I mean, unless, you've just
got to go to Afghanistan."

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The trailer sways and
seems to buck in this wind.

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Why they decided to build here
in the open, I can't fathom.

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So he wants to build me a house.

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Well, that's nice.

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Creepy Looney
Tunes music filters

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through the wall,
the volume down low.

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Kah asks Roscoe if
he's ready to go out.

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His voice so clear, he could
be in the room with us.

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"There has got to be a
better way," I think.

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I will think of a better way.

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"Dark in here," Lin says.

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"Want to have some fun?"

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"No."

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"Nothing else to do
in this podunk town."

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"I am not touching
that thing tonight."

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"No?"

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His toes pet my foot.

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He says, "Kaah," very softly.

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"What are you doing?"

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"In case you come
looking for me,

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wanted you to know where I am."

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"Very funny."

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"Kaah--"

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[APPLAUSE]

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