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I also asked him to tell Jack that if Jack was...
Posted on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM
I also asked him to tell Jack that if Jack was old
enough to vote and party with FSU sorority girls,
he was old enough to take care of his damned cell
phone
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It was actually close to three-thirty when I
arrived back on the Key, but both Jack's car and
Elizabeth's vintage silver Benz were parked on the
cracked square to the right of Big Pink, and the
two of them were sitting on my back stoop,
drinking iced teaJack was still wearing his gray
suit, but his hair was once more in its customary
disarray and he was wearing a Devil Rays tee under
his jacketWireman was wearing black jeans and a
white chanel red black handbag shirt, open at the collar; a Nebraska
Cornhuskers gimme cap was cocked back on his head
I parked, got out, and stretched, trying to get my
bad hip in gearThey stood up and came to meet me,
neither of them smiling
"Everyone gone, amigo?" Wireman asked
"Everyone but my Aunt Jean and Uncle Ben," I said
"They're veteran freeloaders, dedicated to
squeezing a good thing to the very last drop
Jack smiled without much humor"Every family's
got a few," he said
"How are you?" I asked Wireman
"About Elizabeth I'm okayHadlock said it was
probably for the best this way, and I suppose he's
rightHer leaving me what may amount louis vuitton mahina to a hundred
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and sixty million dollars in cash, securities, and
propertiesMaybe someday I'll have the luxury of
trying to get my head around it, but right now
"Right now something's going on
"How much have you told Jack?"
Wireman looked a bit uncomfortable"Well, I tell
you what, amigoOnce I started, it was damn hard
to find a reasonable stopping place
"He told me all of it," Jack saidIncluding what he thinks you did about
restoring his eyesight, and what you think you did
to Candy Brown"And the two little
girls you saw
"Are you okay with the Candy Brown thing?" I asked
"If it was up to me, I'd imitation prada handbags give you a medalAnd the
people of Sarasota would probably give you your
own float in the Memorial Day parade Jack
stuffed his hands in his pockets"But if you told
me last fall that stuff like this could happen
outside of MNight Shyamalan movies, I would have
laughed
"What about last week?" I asked
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Jack thought about itOn the other side of Big
Pink, the waves came steadily inUnder my living
room and bedroom, the shells would be talking"Probably wouldn't've laughed then
I knew from the first there was something about
you, Edgar He ran the
fingers of his two hands together, lacing them
And I thought balenciaga bag that was rightThat was how it had
beenLike the fingers of two hands lacing
togetherAnd the fact that I only had one hand
had never mattered
"What are you saying, hermano?" Wireman askedIt
was like they were waiting for each other He
looked embarrassed, but not unsure
I cocked a thumb at my house
"Tell him about finding the basket first," Wireman
said to Jack"Wasn't no thing; didn't take
twenty minutesIt was sitting up on top of some
old bureau at the far end of the atticLight from
one of the vents to the outside was shining in on
itLike it wanted to be found He glanced at
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Wireman, who nodded omega speedmaster leather agreemen
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