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Show 60 Edju always wore a hat, big brim dipping over his right eye. "Oooo, so very ooo-ooo," said Edju when he came in the door. "So good to see you," said Aunt Elizabeth. Edju and Red shook hands. Edju kissed Helen, though Helen always was careful around Edju k-axxxxaxxxaxxxXaii because Edju never repaid Bush for bringing him to the states and now he was rich. "So, so, so," Edju said to me. He moved on to Neda. "Oooo Neda so very you so very you." "Such a beautiful little girl," said Aunt Elizabeth. "I'm fat and disgusting," said Neda. "She reads a lot," said Helen. "All the time." "So does Red," said Neda. "Ooo, Red, so very, very," said Edju. "There's plenty of time to exercise," said Aunt Elizabeth. "Bleah," said Neda. "Ooo, Jarvis, you so, so very very big, hmmm, big boy, hmm so," said Edju. He rubbed his chin and tilted his head. So we all packed into the Rainbow, Red and Helen and Elizabeth in the front and Edju in the back with the four kids and we went to the zoo and counted the flies on the xxaxx lions' faces and stared at empty bear cages and sleeping racoons. There was supposed to be a chimp but it just died when somebody threw him a tennis ball and he ate it. They had a lot of animals that had just died. Neda xxx tried to feed the deers dirt. I stuck nx my finger through the fence and got bit. Then we went to the Public Dock and watched boats. Edju bought everybody ice cream sandwiches, the kind that they put a real slab of ice cream, xaxxxxxaxaa stawberry, vanilla, ax chocolate, or neopolitan between two wafers. Edju got neopolitan. Neda put her ice cream in her nose. Helen got gas and farted all the xaxax way home. When we got back Elizabeth went into the kitchen with Helen and Red, but Edju pulled a wooden fold-up chess set out of his travel bag and tried to teach me chess which was a disaster. Every-time I made a move Edju put my xxxx piece back and spoke to me in Worldese. Then I'd move it again and £ he'd put it back, xxxxxi which wuirt on for TI Irnr tim* until B Stinky Jinx came over. |