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.""Somehow it sounds dull.""It isn't."She wrapped her fingers around my wrist."Okay, smart-ass.Do you think you'dfeel good after me?""If the reasons are right, sure.""Is there more than one reason, friend?""The biggest and most important reason in the world is to be together withsomeone in a way that makes life a little less bleak and solitary andlonesome.To exchange the I for the We.In the biggest sense of the word, it'scold outside.And kindness and affection and gentleness build a nice warm fireinside.That's okay.But if you want to set some new international screwingrecord, or if you want to show off the busiest fastest hips in town, forgetit."The fingers slackened their hold on my wrist and she pulled her hand back.Tears stood in her eyes.She smiled and shook her head and said, "No wayMcGee.Whatever it is you're selling, I can't afford it.I went that routeonce, and it stung.It stung a lot.If that's the kind of dressing you want onthe salad, eat elsewhere.I am a very good lay for the Harry Hascombs of theworld, and I always feel good afterward, thanks.""Always?""Go to hell!" she said and got up."All I am is your garden-variety man-eater.I like it.Go to hell!""To each his dagnab blue-eyed own."She smiled."And I'll always miss Walt Kelly too." She held her hand out tome."Friends? I didn't exactly come here to set up a friendship.But it'llhave to do.God! I am starving.What have you got here?" She had opened therefrigerator."Is that corned beef? Cheese.Where's the bread? I have thisterrible food engine inside me.I eat enough for three truckdrivers and I'malways hungry and I never gain one little ounce.I could give you bonebruises, dear."I sat and watched her make sandwiches.She was very deft, and she made a lotof them.She ate about twice as much as I ate.She ate with such enthusiasm itmade her sweaty, even in the air conditioning.She ate with such a lusty,bright-eyed joy that I had the wistful wish to have played her game andbundled her into the sack five minutes after Meyer stepped off the boat.Shewas intensely alive, as vital and immediate as anyone I had met in a longtime."How often did she bring the samples?""What? Oh, when we were about to run out.Her moving to that Fifteen HundredPage 42 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlplace had something to do with the deal.She told me she was getting a freeride on the apartment.But she missed us."The phone rang.It startled both of us.I went into the lounge and answeredit.It was Meyer."About the autopsy on Birdsong, it was heart.Some kind ofaneurysm.Thought you'd like to know.I hope I.haven't disturbed you byphoning.""You can come back aboard any time.""Oh.""What's this with the Oh?""Just Oh.Nothing complicated.Oh."She sauntered into the lounge and stretched out on the yellow couch, placingher second mug of milk on the coffee table."This is truly some great boat.""What is Chris Omaha like?""Nobody can ever figure out how come Jack stayed with her so long.She's dumb,loud, and greedy.Rotten to him and rotten to the kids.Ever since the kidsgot old enough to be sent off to school, they've been away.She likes to bealone in the house in case something wearing pants comes by to make a deliveryor fix something.Jack caught her a couple of times.But leave her? No.Carriethought for quite a while maybe he would leave Chris and marry her.I don'tknow what the hold is.It was a kid marriage for them.Seventeen and eighteenthey were.It finally got to be an arrangement, I guess.He could have Carrie,and she could have anybody who happened to come along.""Like Ready Freddy Van Harn?""Ready Freddy? Wow, you read him right.I'll have to tell Floss what youcalled him.No, Fred is the lawyer for the business, and he's Jack and Harry'spersonal lawyer, and he'll be handling the estate, what's left, but hewouldn't boff around with old Chris, not when he can tag the best there is."I recounted my reasons for contradicting her.She looked astonished."Whatabout that! What do you know? I guess old Chris snuck up on his blind side orsomething.""He was Carrie's lawyer?""From being the lawyer for the business.When she wanted to make out a will sothat Ben couldn't get her savings or her car or anything like that, she askedFred one day when he was in to see Harry about something, and he made somenotes and drew up a will and had her come into the office and sign it.I guesshe made himself the executor.That would be okay by Carrie.And Betty told meshe'd warned Susan about Fred.Susan seems like such a nice kid.Fred even gotto Betty one time.I guess it was sort of a challenge to him.Betty is sort ofsexless, you know? She has all the equipment and she's pretty but something'sleft out
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