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's-308-voice. I thoughtfor a minute I'd die of fear. I returned to the bathroom, relathered, started again from scratch. She'd been a little nervous at first, but they'd been like old friends right from the beginning and held been so cour-teous and gentlemanly.

I reached for Ki with the part of my mind that had for the last fewweeks known what she was wearing, what room of the trailer she was in,and what she was doing there. By then she's usually fast asleep on thecouch. Iswung my legs out of bed and raised my hand to brush my sweat-hair offmy forehead. There were documented cases of that inRipley's Believe It or Not, which served me as science between the agesof eight and fourteen.