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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 3 Antiquity of Man, Fossil Man, The Evolution of Palaeolithic Cultures, etc., all appropriately illustrated with drawings and photographs of flint scrapers, hand axes, bone chips and skulls. Poor Mark. I will try to quiet the babies, and keep up with the ironing so his shirts won't look so rumpled when he leaves for work. He is in the bathroom. He calls, "Jody?" "What are you doing in there?" I knock on the bathroom door. "Nothing." "Are you reading?" "No." He is silent a minute, then he asks, "How are you, honey?" "Fine, I guess. Guess what the doctor said?" "You're pregnant." Pause. "No. I have nerves." "Nerves?" he says, with a capital N. "I am nervous. That's what's the matter with me. He took a mole off my arm, too." "You don't look nervous," he says. |
