12/02/2026 14:06

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I'm not a child to be treated like that . You know that, don't you? I'm in for a certain measure of it in any case, I said. What I remember mostclearly is the liveness of her. And I saw what she meant.

She was standing right there, butshe might have been calling across a wide canyon. you know those things sometimes happen to women. Your number's unlisted, I know. No, I said, hearing my voice as you sometimes do in moments when youare caught completely fiat-footed, hearing it as though it were comingfrom someone else.