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Show The Truth of Eden 68 What are you talking about? asked the man. I need to be bad. My goodness weighs too much, especially on my right side. I'm getting lopsided. Maybe you should go away i f that's how you feel. Go to China where you won't embarrass me. I'd love to go to China. You know that the only man-made thing that the astronauts saw from the moon was the Great Wall of China. What do you think of that? He drove into the bakery's parking lot. You'd be lonely i f I went to China. She rolled her window down. Raisin Danish? he asked as he pulled on the door handle. She folded her arms across her chest and looked the other way. I know you like apple, he said, but raisin is the best. You know that. Once again she pinched her naked hip beneath the purple duster. This time I not only like apple, she said, I want i t. But raisin Danish is the only thing I buy at the bakery. I want apple, she said as she curled her fingertips into her arms, and I want you to have i t with me. You're being d i f f i c u l t today. She smiled sweetly. Just once? Please, oh please do something out of the ordinary. |