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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    9:55 am
    @@@@@Cat tugged at Scarlett's sleeve"Are you
    @@@@@Cat tugged at Scarlett's sleeve"Are you going to eat your
    Momma? I'll open it for you
    "Thank you, darling," said Scarlett to her childDon't be a she said
    to herselfShe smiled at Cat, and at the Earl of What was past was
    past, and she had to think about the lutL have a suspicion you're going
    to have another yolk to eat, Scarlett laughedCat said goodbye and
    ran outdoors after breakfast, but stayed"Bring more coffee," he told
    the maid, without her"Tell me about your daughter," he said to
    Scarlett"She only likes the white of the egg," Scarlett answered, to
    mask her worryWhat should she tell him about Cat's father?
    Suppose
    Luke asked his name, how he died, who he wasBut Fenton asked
    only
    about Cat
    "Now old is this remarkable daughter of yours, Scarlett?" Ne
    professed
    astonishment when told that Cat was barely four, asked if she was
    always so self-possessed, if she had always been precocious, if she
    was
    very high-strung Scarlett warmed to his genuine interest and talked
    until her throat was raw about the marvels of Cat O'hara"You should
    see her on her pony, Luke, she rides better than I do-or you And
    she climbs everything like a monkeyThe painters had to pluck her off
    their ladders She knows the woods as well as any fox, and she has
    a
    built-in compass, she never gets lost 'Nigh-strung'? There's not a
    nervous bone in her bodyShe's so fearless that it terrifies me
    sometimesAnd she never carries on when she gets a bump or a
    bruise
    Even when she was a baby she hardly ever cried, and when she
    started
    walking, she'd just look surprised when she fell, then got right back
    up again Of course she's healthy! Didn't you see how straight and
    strong she is? She eats like a horse, too, and never gets sickYou
    wouldn't believe the number of eclairs and cream buns she can tuck
    away
    without turning a hair When Scarlett heard the hoarseness in her
    voice, she looked at the clock and laughed"My grief, I've been
    bragging for an a
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    9:55 am
    @@@@@ I wiped absently at Walter's pallid face,
    @@@@@
    I wiped absently at Walter's pallid face, listening more intently now, but they didn't speak of
    Jared again
    Not here,Melanie whispered
    Looking for help for Walter,I agreed
    I thought about the last time I'd seen him–the kiss, the belief…He probably wanted some time
    to himself
    I hope he isn't out there convincing himself that you're a very talented actress-slash-Seeker
    again
    That's possible, of course
    Melanie groaned silently
    Ian and Doc murmured in quiet voices about inconsequential things, mostly Ian catching Doc
    up on what was going on in the caves
    “What happened to Wanda's face?” Doc whispered, but I could still hear him easily
    “More of the same,” Ian said in a tight voice
    Doc made an unhappy noise under his breath and then clicked his tongue
    Ian told him a bit about tonight's awkward class, about Geoffrey's questions
    “It would have been convenient if Melanie had been possessed by a Healer,” Doc mused
    I flinched, but they were behind me and probably didn't notice
    “We're lucky it was Wanda,” Ian murmured in my defense“No one else –”
    “I know,” Doc interrupted, good-natured as always“I guess I should say, it's too bad Wanda
    didn't have more of an interest in medicine
    “I'm sorry,” I murmuredIwas careless to reap the benefits of perfect health without ever being
    curious about the cause
    A hand touched my shoulder“You have nothing to apologize for,” Ian said
    Jamie was being very quietI looked around and saw that he was curled up on the cot where
    Doc had been napping
    “It's late,” Doc noted“Walter's not going anywhere tonight
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:03 am
    @@@@@His breath was coming in long slow gasps
    @@@@@His breath was coming in long slow gasps like a runner after a race"I'm going to see the Lieutenanttell him about the gunHow the hell did it happen?"
    Toglio propped himself on an elbowHe loathed the explanations that were to come, and he was confused"I don't know," he said"I heard Goldstein yell 'Watch out' and then it just seemed to rip out of our hands Toglio hated to give excuses to Croft
    "Goldstein yelled, huh?" Croft asked"Where is he?"
    "Here I am, Sergeant Goldstein's voice came out of the darkness beside them
    "Why'd you yell 'Watch out'?"
    "I don't knowI felt suddenly as if I couldn't hold it any moreSomething pulled it away from me
    "Who was the other man?"
    Wyman roused himself His voice sounded weak
    "Did you let go?" Croft asked
    Wyman felt a trace of fear as he thought of admitting that to Croft"No, I don't think soI heard Goldstein yell, and then the gun started to come down on meIt was rolling back so I got out of the way Already he was uncertain exactly how it had occurred, and a part of his mind was trying to convince him that he spoke the truthWith it, however, he felt a surprising flush of shame"I guess it was my fault," he blurted out honestly, but his voice was so tired that it lacked sincerity, and Croft thought he was trying to protect GoldsteinA spasm of rage worked through him, and he turned on Goldstein and said, "Listen, Iz
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:03 am
    @@@@@Then I'd have some say soInstead, I have to
    @@@@@Then I'd have some say soInstead, I have to bite my
    tongue
    and watch while everything goes downhill and let Suellen queen it over
    meI'm the one who saved Tara from the Yankees and
    the carpetbaggersIt is mine, no matter what the law says, and it'll
    be Wade's some day, I'll see to that, no matter what it takes
    Scarlett rested her head against the split leather covering on the old
    sofa in the small room from which Ellen O 'Hara had quietly ruled the
    plantationThere seemed to be a lingering trace of her mother's
    lemon
    verbena toilet water, even after all these years
    This was the peacefulness she had come to findNever mind the
    changes, the shabbinessTara was still Tara, still homeAnd the
    heart of it was here, in Ellen's roomA slamming door shattered the
    quietScarlett heard Ella and Susie coming through the hall,
    quarrelling about somethingShe had to get away, she couldn't face
    noise and conflictShe wanted to see the fields
    anyhowThey were all healed, rich and red the way they'd always
    been
    She walked quickly across the weedy lawn and past the cow shed
    She'd
    never get over her aversion to cows, not if she lived to be a
    hundred
    Nasty sharp-horned thingsAt the edge of the first field she leaned
    on the fence and breathed in the rich ammonia odor of newly turned
    earth and manureFunny how in the city manure was so smelly and
    messy, while in the country it was a farmer's perfumeWill sure is a
    good farmerHe's the best thing that ever happened to TaraNo
    matter what I might have done, we'd never have made it if he hadn't
    stopped on his way home to Florida and decided to stayHe fell in
    love
    with this land the way other men fall in love with a womanAnd he's
    not even Irish! Until Will came along I always thought only a
    brogue-talking Irishman like Pa could get so worked up about the
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    9:55 am
    @@@@@“A doctor,” answered Marie’s brother“He’s
    @@@@@“A doctor,” answered Marie’s
    brother“He’s staying at the inn and he’s a friend of mineI was a patient of his in—”
    “I think we should be circumspect here,” interrupted the Canadian doctor firmly“You asked for
    my help and my confidence, John, and I give both gladly, but considering the nature of the events
    and the fact that your brother-in-law won’t be under my professional care, let’s dispense with my
    name
    “I couldn’t agree with you more, Doctor,” added Jason, wincing, then suddenly snapping his
    head up, his eyes wide in an admixture of pleading and panic“Ishmael! He’s dead—I killed him!”
    “He isn’t and you didn’t,” said St“He’s a goddamned mess but he’s not dead
    He’s one tough kid, like his father, and he’ll make itWe’re flying him to the hospital in
    Martinique
    “Christ, he was a corpse!”
    “He was savagely beaten,” explained the doctor“Both arms were broken, along with multiple
    lacerations, contusions, I suspect internal injuries and a severe concussionHowever, as John
    accurately described the young man, he’s one tough kid
    “I want the best for him
    “Those were my orders Bourne moved his eyes to the doctor“How damaged am I?”
    “Without X rays or seeing how you move—symptomatically, as it were—I can only give you a
    cursory judgment
    “Outside of the wound, I’d say primarily traumatic shock
    “Who says?” said the doctor, smiling kindly
    “I do and I’m not trying to be funnyThe body, not the headI’ll be the judge of the head
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    159
    “Is he a native?” asked the doctor, looking at the owner of Tranquility Inn“A white but older
    Ishmael? I’ll tell you he’s not a physician
    “Answer him, pleaseThe bullet passed through the left side of your neck, missing by millimeters several
    vital spots that would certainly have rendered you voiceless and probably dead
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    9:55 am
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    knife" "Me old mother saw him walking on All hallows', the rope was
    dragging behind blighting all it touched to shrivelled backness"
    cc I feel a cold wind down my back, I'm leaving this haunted place"

    "But if they're up there, The O'hara and the changeling? We need to
    kill them for cartier watch santos the ill they've done us" "Ach, isn't slow starving a
    death as good as burning? Put your torches to the ropes, then, lads
    They'll not get down without breaking their necks!" Scarlett smelled
    the rope burning, and she wanted to shout in jubilationThey were
    safe! No one could come up nowTomorrow she could make a rope
    from
    strips of the quilts on the floor deville watch beneath herThey'd
    make their way to Trim somehow, when daylight cameThey were
    safe!
    She bit her lips to stop herself from laughing, from crying, from
    calling Rhett's name so she could feel it in her throat, hear it in the
    air, hear his deep, sure, laughing response, hear his voice speak her
    nameIt was a long time before the voices and the sound omega moon watch of
    trampling
    boots faded completely awayEven then Rhett did not speakhe
    came
    to her, and to Cat, and held them both in his strong embraceScarlett rested her head against him, and it was all she
    wantedMuch later, when Cat's heavy looseness told of deep sleep,
    Scarlett laid her down and covered her with a quiltThen she turned
    to RhettHer arms circled his handbag dolce gabbana neck, and his lips found hers"So
    that's what it means," she whispered shakily when the kiss endedButler, you fairly take my breath away
    Muted laughter rumbled in his chesthe unlocked her embrace and
    gently
    separated them"Come away from the baby
    His low, quiet words did not make Cat stirRhett tucked the quilt
    closely around her"Over here, Scarlett," he louis vuitton prices sa
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    9:55 am
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    Something adhered to my skin, under my shirt“Are my ribs broken, then?”
    “Doc's not sureHe's doing as much as he can
    “I feel bad… that I used to not like him,” I admitted“Of course you didn'tI'm amazed you can like any of us
    “You've got that turned around,” I mumbled, and dug my teeth into the hard vintage gucci rollI chewed
    mechanically and then swallowed, setting the bread down as I waited to see how it hit my
    stomach
    “Not very appetizing, I know,” Ian said“Just testing–to see if the nausea's really passed
    “Maybe something more appealing…”
    I looked at him, curious, but I couldn't see his faceI listened to a sharp louis vuitton men crackle and a ripping
    sound… and then I could smell, and I understood“Really? For me?”
    Something touched my lip, and I crunched into the delicacy he offered
    “I've been dreaming about this I sighed as I chewedHe put the bag in my hands
    I downed the contents of the small bag quickly, and then finished my chloe dior roll, seasoned by the
    cheese flavor still in my mouthHe handed me a bottle of water before I could askFor more than the Cheetos, you know
    “You're more than welcome, Wanda
    I stared into his dark blue eyes, trying to decipher everything he was saying with that
    sentence–there seemed to be something more replica gucci than just courtesy in the wordsAnd then I
    realized that I could see the color of Ian's eyes; I glanced quickly up at the cracks aboveThe
    stars were gone, and the sky was turning pale gray
    “Are you sure you have to do this?” Ian asked, his hands already half-extended as if to pick me
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:03 am
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    Croft deliberated"You get Red and Gallagher in, and Martinez and me'll put up
    Wilson went over to talk to Gallagher, and left him with five Australian pounds in his pocketHe stopped to chat with Red, and mentioned the price"Five pounds apiece for three lousy canteens? Wilson, you can get five canteens for purse louis vuitton twenty-five pounds
    "Now, you know you cain't, Red"Where the hell's your five pounds, Wilson?"
    Wilson took out Gallagher's money
    "It wouldn't be one of the other men's money, would it?"
    Wilson sighed"Honestly, Red, Ah don' know how the hell you can think those kind of things about a buddy At the moment he was completely sincere
    "All right, here's cartier watch santos five," Red growledHe still thought Wilson was lying, but it didn't really matterHe needed to get drunk anyway, and he did not have the energy to find some liquor for himselfHis body stiffened for a moment in a duplication of the panic that had caught him when he was walking alone on the trail and had heard the shot from Croft's gun"All we ever do is gucci bookbag screw each other anyway, what the hell He could not shake the death of the Japanese prisonerIt had been wrong somehowWhen the Jap hadn't been killed the first time, he rated being taken in as a prisonerBut it was more than thatHe should have stayedThe whole week up there, the night on the river, the killingsLet Wilson have his good time; it was getting hard Gucci Indy Bag to find
    Wilson collected the rest of the money from Croft and Martinez, picked up four empty canteens, and went off to see the mess sergeantHe paid the twenty pounds he had promoted, and returned with the four canteens filledOne of them he hid under a folded blanket in his pup tent, and then he joined the other men and unhitched the canteens from his seamaster omega b
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:03 am
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    himThink about somebody besides yourself Scarlett
    wiped her hand on her skirt as if it were soiled by Ashley's grip
    Then she walked from the room, pushing India out of the wayAs she
    opened the door to the porch, she could hear dior saddle India: "My poor, darling
    AshleyDon't pay any attention to the horrible things Scarlett
    said
    Scarlett stopped, turnedShe withdrew a calling card from her purse
    and dropped it on a table"I'm leaving my card for you, Aunt Pitty,"
    she shouted, "since you're afraid to see me in person
    She slammed the door behind her"Just drive, Elias," she told ladies gucci watch her
    coachman She couldn't stand to stay in that
    house
    one single minute moreWhat was she going to do? Had she gotten
    through to Ashley? She'd been so mean-well, she had to be, he was
    being drowned in sympathy and pity-but had it done any good?
    Ashley
    adored his son, maybe he'd pull himself together for Beau's sake
    "Maybe" wasn't good enoughShe had to make replica gucci him do itHenry Hamilton's law office," she told Elias"Uncle
    Henry" was terrifying to most women, but not to ScarlettShe could
    understand that growing up in the same house with Aunt Pittypat had
    made him a misogynistAnd she knew he rather liked herHe said
    she
    wasn't as silly as most womenHe was her lawyer and knew how
    shrewd
    she was in her chanel pearl business dealings
    When she walked into his office without waiting to be announced, he
    put
    down the letter he was reading and chuckled"Do come in, Scarlett,"
    he said, rising to his feet"Are you in a hurry to sue somebody?" She
    paced forward and back, ignoring the chair beside his desk"I'd like
    to shoot somebody," she said, "but I don't know that it would vintage omega watches
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    9:55 am
    @@@@@Inside was an automatic with two boxes of
    @@@@@Inside was an automatic with two boxes of shellsUnderneath, neatly
    layered, were thirty thousand francs, in varying denominations, roughly five thousand dollars,
    American
    “Tomorrow I will arrange a method for you to obtain funds whenever necessaryWithin limits,
    of course
    “No limits,” Bourne had contradicted“I’ll have Conklin wire you a hundred thousand, and then
    another hundred after that, if it’s necessaryYou just tell him where
    “Of contingency funds?”
    “No
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    191
    With both his hands holding the looped strings of shopping bags, he headed back to
    Montalembert and the hotelIn a few minutes it would be two in the afternoon in Washington, eight
    at night in ParisAs he walked rapidly down the street he tried not to think about Alex’s news—an
    impossible demand on himselfIf anything had happened to Marie and the children, he’d go out of
    his mind! Yet what could have happened? They were back on Tranquility by now, and there was no
    safer place for themThere was not! He was sure of thatAs he entered the old elevator and
    lowered the bags in his right hand so as to push the number of his floor and remove the hotel key
    from his pocket, there was a stinging sensation in his neck; he gasped—he had moved too fast,
    stretched the gut of a suture perhapsHe felt no warm trickle of blood; it was merely a warning this
    timeHe rushed down the two narrow corridors to his room, unlocked the door, threw the shopping
    bags on the bed, and rapidly took the three necessary steps to the desk and the telephoneConklin
    was true to his word; the phone in Vienna, Virginia, was picked up on the first ringWhat happened? Marie ?”
    “No,” interrupted Conklin curtly“I spoke to her around noonShe and the kids are back at the
    inn and she’s ready to kill meShe doesn’t believe a word I told her and I’m going to erase the tape
    I haven’t heard that kind of language since the Mekong Delta
    “She’s upset—”
    “So am I,” broke in Alex, not bothering to make light of Bourne’s understatement
    “What?”
    “You hear
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    9:55 am
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    - the orangey kind with white specklesI don't
    know if I dreamed about it or not, but I wanted
    oneI was ready to start experimenting with
    paints, and I thought one of those orange shells
    would be just the thing to plop down in the middle
    of a Gulf of Mexico sunset
    I began Tiffany Necklace prospecting southward along the beach,
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    dozen of the tiny birds - Ilse called them peeps -
    that prospect endlessly for food at the edge of
    the waterFarther out, pelicans cruised, then
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    stunned at how small Big Pink had become
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    my hand, all at once feeling the broken-glass
    throb in my hipIt started there and went pulsing
    all the way down my legYet the tracks I saw
    stretching back toward my house hardly dragged at
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    tall, heavyset guy dressed in jeans and a white
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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    back to CharlestonIt would be equivalent to surrenderShe had to
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    The O'Haras have already invited me Pierre Robillard'south jerked,
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    She'd always known her grandfather disapproved of her mother's
    marriageHe'd never accepted Gerald O'Hara in his houseShe
    wanted
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    9:54 am
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    prone to errors without expert guidance which I was all too happy to provide
    “Collegial?” said Alex“I got out of college damn near thirty-five years ago
    “It obviously didn’t take where the nuances of English are concerned,” mumbled Morris PanovPritchard, aren’t you terribly hot in those clothes? I’d be sweating like a pig
    “No nuances there, only an unproven cliché,” muttered Conklin
    “I do not perspire, sir,” replied the assistant manager
    “I’ll bet my pension you ‘perspired’ when MrJacques came back from Washington,”
    offered Alex“Christ almighty, Johnny a ‘terrorist’!”
    “The incident has been forgotten, sir,” said Pritchard stoicallySaint Jay and Sir Henry
    understand that my brilliant uncle and I had only the children’s interests at heart
    “Savvy, very savvy,” observed Conklin
    “I’ll set up the canapés, gentlemen, and check the iceThe others should be here in a matter of
    minutes
    “That’s very kind of you,” said Panov
    David Webb leaned against the balcony archway watching his wife as she read the last pages of
    a children’s story to their sonCooper was dozing in a chair, her magnificent
    black head, crowned by a fleece of silver and gray, kept nodding above her full chest as if she
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    only feet from where she was sittingThe inflections of Marie’s quiet voice matched the words of
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    441
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    music in figures, his wife might have been an actress, mused DavidShe had the surface attributes
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    street or entered a roo
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    10:30 am
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    printed on one sideOn the other he'd scrawled
    three notesThey jagged up and down - from the
    motion of the ambulance, I assumed - but I could
    read them:
    "The table is leaking
    "You will want to but you mustn't
    "Drown her back to sleep
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    They were all spooky, but that last one made the
    flesh on my arms prickle
    "Nothing else?" I asked, handing the invitation
    back
    "She said my name a couple of times
    And she said yours, Edgar
    "Have a look at this," I said, and slid the manila
    envelope across the table
    He asked where I'd gotten it and I told himHe
    said it all seemed a little convenient, and I
    shruggedI was remembering something Elizabeth
    had said to me - The water runs faster nowSoon
    come the rapidsWell, the rapids were hereI had
    a feeling this was only the start of the white
    water
    My hip was starting to feel a little better, its
    late-night sobbing down to mere sniffles
    According to popular wisdom, a dog is a man's best
    friend, but I would vote for aspirinI pulled my
    chair around the table and sat next to Wireman,
    where I could read the headline: DUMA KEY TOT
    BLOSSOMS FOLLOWING SPILL - IS SHE A CHILD PRODIGY?
    Beneath was a photographIn it was a man I knew
    well in a bathing suit I knew well: John Eastlake
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    in his slimmer, trimmer incarnationHe was
    smiling, and holding up a smiling little girlIt
    was Elizabeth, looking the same age as in the
    family portrait of Daddy and His Girls, only now
    she was holding out a drawing to the camera in
    both hands and wearing a gauze bandage wrapped
    around her headThere was another, much older
    girl in the picture - big sister Adriana, and yes,
    she could have been a carrot-top - but to begin
    with, Wireman and I paid little attention to herOr even to the toddler with
    the bandage around her head
    "Holy wow," Wireman s
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    10:02 am
    @@@@@He stood up and looked at the men bundled in
    @@@@@He stood up and looked at the men bundled in their blanketsA few of them were stirring already
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    Automatically he swung his legs free of the blanket and began to put on his bootsThey watched him soberlyHe picked up his rifle, which he had kept beside him under the blankets, and examined it to see if it was dry"Why the hell didn't you wake me earlier?"
    Gallagher looked at Martinez"We go back today, huh?" Martinez asked
    "What?"
    "We go back," Martinez stammered
    Croft lit a cigarette, feeling the pungence of the smoke in his empty stomach"What the hell you talkin' about, Japbait?"
    "Better we go back?"
    This was a shock to CroftWas Martinez threatening him? He was stunnedMartinez was the only man in the platoon whose obedience he had never doubtedCroft's next reaction was rageHe stared quietly at Martinez's throat, restraining himself from leaping at himHis only friend in the platoon threatening himThere was no one you could trust, no one except yours
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    10:16 am
    @@@@@No offense, Will, but a man can't go very
    @@@@@No offense, Will, but a man can't go very far without an
    educationAnd none given, but I figure you're wrongWade
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    needAnd that's what he wantsFarming Tara, to put a
    finger on itHe says his grandpa built Tara with no more schooling
    than he's got and he don't see why he should have to be any
    different
    The boy's not like me, ScarlettHell, I can't hardly do more than
    write my name
    He had four years at the fancy school you had him at in Atlanta and
    three more here in the schoolhouse and on the landHe knows all a
    country boy needs to knowThat's what he is, Scarlett, a country boy,
    and he's happy at itI'd hate to see you mess him upWho did Will Benteen think he was talking to?
    She was Wade's mother, she knew what was best for him"Long as
    you've
    got your dander up, I might as well finish what I've got to say," Will
    continued in his slow Cracker drawlHe looked directly ahead at the
    dusty red road"They showed me the new papers about Tara over to
    the
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    share
    I don't know what your thinking is, Scarlett, and I ain't askingBut
    I'm telling you thisIf anybody comes up the road flapping something
    legal at me 'bout taking Tara, I plan to meet 'em at the end of the
    drive with a shotgun in my hand
    "Will, I swear on a stack of Bibles, I'm not planning to do anything to
    Tara Scarlett was grateful it was the truthWill's softspoken
    nasal drawl was more frightening than the loudest shout could ever
    be
    "I'm glad to hear itMy figuring is it should be Wad
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    9:55 am
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    With a sigh, I pulled the largest shrink-wrapped flat of water bottles from the shelfIt nearly hit
    the floor before I caught it against a lower shelf edgeMy arms felt as though they'd popped
    halfway out of their sockets
    “You're kidding me!” I exclaimed aloud
    Shut up!
    “Excuse me?” a short, stooped man, the other customer, asked from the end of the aisle
    “Uh–nothing,” I mumbled, not meeting his gaze“This is heavier than I expected
    “Would you like some help?” he offered
    “No, no,” I answered hastily“I'll just take a smaller one
    He turned back to the selection of potato chips
    No, you will not,Melanie assured me've carried heavier loads than thisYou've let us get all
    soft, Wanderer, she added in irritation
    Sorry,I responded absently, bemused by the fact that she had used my name for the first time
    I struggled with the flat of water, wondering how far I could possibly be expected to carry itI
    managed to get it to the front register, at leastWith great relief, I edged its weight onto the
    counterI put the bag on top of the water, and then added a box of granola bars, a roll of
    doughnuts, and a bag of chips from the closest display
    Water is way more important than food in the desert, and we can only carry so much –
    I'm hungry,I interrupted
    It's your back, I guess,she said grudgingly, and then she ordered,Get a map
    I placed the one she wanted, a topographical map of the county, on the counter with the restIt
    was no more than a prop in her charade
    The cashier, a white-haired man with a ready smile, scanned the bar code
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