along with an arrest warrant on the man.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
151. As he turned the DeSoto onto Highway 20,
they both knew the girl would not be meeting her curfew.
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147. “How so?” the girl asked in a raspy voice.
A curl of smoke swirled around the ceiling light and then disappeared.
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146. “You duped me,” he said, gripping the wheel.
His knuckles were white, and he thought about hitting her.
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142. “I’m grounded,” the girl said, plopping on the car seat
and nestling close to him. “You have a cigarette?”
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135. “Pick me up from school at 3,”
she wrote in her girlish curlicue hand. “Immaculate Conception High School.”
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133. At dawn, the girl slipped
out of the room, went home, and donned her navy plaid school uniform.
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130. The girl saw the man’s wedding band
glint in the low light; she knew immediately it wasn’t a strong union.
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125. The redheaded girl, encased in a white sweater,
was tall and curvy, tips of her breasts aimed at him like torpedoes.
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124. He was broad-shouldered and trim,
his black hair cropped close, his blue eyes impish. She would win him.
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122. On this night, he just had to get out
of the house for a cold Hamm’s and maybe shoot some pool with the guys.
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