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Show Oh Say Can You See? 37 The front page of that night's newspaper ran pictures of the before and after-frame houses before, no frame houses after; dummied soldiers before, no recognizable dummies after. Surprised cattle laid f l a t out in the dead grass on their sides, their hair singed white on the up side. Yucca Flats. Frenchman Flats. Mercury Test Site. Household words. "Nobody can get us now," my daddy said. I don't think about i t much, but sometimes when I re-arrange my pillow for more f l u f f , ready to settle into sleep, the cloud mists into long, red airy fingers over everything, reaching across the stark blue. |