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    I felt faint, paralyzed, destroyed. I cra t door, all to bed. If ed quickly in tory.

    to rouse me from deep slumber t morning, tess fixed a pot of  coffee and a late breakfast of eggs and biscuits, av as an idiot savant. too many gs in ttic. e sat on tions of tended to read, but my mind rying to sort ties, ed  of tion of maddening intensity.

    tess stood and peered doreet bot sa;I cant stand it,quot; s;Im going inside until t off. Can I fres;

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    quot;Did you figure out ion ?quot;

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    quot;Cant you smell t ran over a skunk.quot;

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    quot;I dont kno teria, a figment of t? A couple of kids.quot;

    S ;Are you feeling okay,  seem yourself today.quot;

    quot;Im not,quot; I said. quot;Maybe I so bed.quot;

    As I drifted off to sleep, ted my dreams. A dozen crept out of tepping out from beree. t on coming, a band of orapped inside, I raced from floor to floor and looked out tains as tly marco Eddies room, and o ers begin to climb up turned to me, menace and red in ttered in otting tle crescendo. I looked into tion morp