09/02/2026 07:18

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For God's sake, man, look at her! Do you thinkyour wife put her in a white silk dress by accident? Is that anyone'sidea of a play-dress? Daddy, why are we going in the water? she asks. White lights danced in thesky--they could have been exploding spacecraft. We'l come back in time. When I did,the barrel hurled me through another inadvertent somersault.

Hang in there. I'm done, I said. He sounded as if he absolutelymeant it. Sleeping dogs, Itold myself each time.