One had found its way inside a lamp and it cast a monstrous, batlikeshadow against the ribbed paper. I lookedat the man on the far left, the third of those that seemed totally real,totally there. The Edwardian on Benton Street in Derry was still two yearsin the future at that point, but we had purchased Sara Laughs, the place ening when he was too tired to do anything but drop into the cot that had been fixed for him in the attic over the garage.
I didn't lookaround again. The seat of my chair was alittle baggy, the interwoven straps a little frayed, and the old girlcanted pretty severely to the left, but there was still no place I'drather have been sitting just then. She turned and hurried back up the doublewide's narrow corridor. I am delighted.
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