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It worked,though. S! Standing at the center of a littlecrowd a young man with red hair was removing his shirt, revealing aheavily muscled upper torso. There was a whole tableful of other guys going over in the ambulance service. The days leading up to the funeral and the funeral itself are dreamlikein my memory--the clearest memory I have is of eating Jo's chocolatemouse and crying.

Then Iwondered what I had come down here for, if not to finally face Johanna'smemory--all of it--and put it to loving rest. Standing there and looking like a refugee from crash-diet hell. And Osgood doesn't know any of the details, so Devore's skirts remainclean here in town. n that damned Rite Aid parking lot to begin with, whenduring any other August we would have been miles from there? Nor wasthat all.