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Show 186 "I'll tell you something," said Bush. "This three handed game is for the birds." Jon threw his hands up over the whole thing. "Listen," said Bush. "Where do you walk in the afternoons." "That's a question," said Jon. His years of law xxkai school were showing. Bush got up on a chair and dropped a coat down over Jon's hands. "You're walking with me to Helen's." Bush held onto one hand while they walked and the other one floated. When they got to Helen's they tied his elbows to the back of a kitchen chair and when his hands floated up it put them in perfect position to hold the cards. He and Bush became pinochle partners and played like they knew each other's every card and every thought. "Honey, we got to get a system like their's," Dee said to Helen over morning coffee. "Then we xxxxx wouldn't have an excuse for losing," xi said Helen. Dee poured more coffee. Her xii nails matched her aaxkaxxx red hair. "Helen dear, you got a bad attitude." "Red has hair like yours," said Helen, "only a little lighter. "Dyed, sugar." "Think of the pressure they have on them, having to win all the time," said Helen. That's when Dee gave Helen a lecture about winning, which didn't do much good as far as I can see. Helen had a more transcendental view of the world back then and always. Still Dee told"Helen that winning was the only thing outside xxxxxi revenge that had any value in the world. Why she remembered times when Derk had to go to work everyday and fight for his life, just to keep his job. Derk would fight anybody. Derk was a good man. She never knew a time when she was within two feet of Derk that he didn't get the most amazing hard-on since the invention of hard-ons, and she'd seen plenty of hard-ons as a girl. Derk didn't even £ get in the Marines the first time he tried. He tried to join the Marines to fight for his country and they wouldn't let him because he had flat feet, so Derk started standing on billiard balls, got to the point he could pick them up and toss thejjK'to hlBiyylf ii»ibh\h.is arches, turned his feet into something like |