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"All Hallows' Eve."

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"I didn't ask Elizabeth why she
adjusted the decorative gourd

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on the top shelf as she
left the lecture hall.

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What I can tell you is this.

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She stopped as if someone
called to her, and this,

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that her son two
months ago caught

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a cold, that he was 27 living
in Portland, or was it Seattle?

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A cold.

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By now you can probably
guess the cold didn't lift.

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His lungs began to flood with
water his body kept making.

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This flood did not draw
back, overtook her,

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took him down back
through her own body,

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preempting the
luxury of annoyances

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he had reigned over her.

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The small reversible hazards
from within whose gentle

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arc he would return, instructed
in increments so slight

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as to go unnoticed by
him, but whose accumulated

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graces she would detect
each time she saw him.

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No, it can't be
the case that she

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paused to move the
holiday squash one-quarter

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inch, pressed her
open palm against it,

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leaving it flush
with the molding

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rather than just over
its edge in order

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that for these last two
weeks James could be

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in a distant city breathing."

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