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Show -297 things he'll stop these games. What do you think of that?" "Well-" "It's the best thing. You and Kathleen'11 be very good for him. He can even go to college if he wants-there must be colleges in Denver. I know I'm asking a lot, Jacob, but he's our baby brother-we can't just leave him here and hope for the best.1* I dropped my voice even lower. "Look at that woman up there-she'll end up making an idiot out o'f the kid. You have to take him with you." "What if I didn't go back?" Jacob said. "Are you serious?" "I don't know. Oh, I'll go back now. But I might not stay forever. It's partly what you said about my life, our lives. Also partly because now Adam's dead I'm next in line There are two times in a man's life when he feels particularly mortal, Buck: when his first child is born and when his father dies." "I can testify to the last,-" I said. Underneath us the rear wheels roared over the asphalt, making our words difficult to hear. The little car bounced and swayed; in our effort to understand one another we leaned close and almost bumped heads, whispering fiercely; we tilted left and tilted right as one body, in retrograde motion to the rocking of the car, and now and then we had to grab hold of each other to keep from falling. |