"Making their way through the debris, they stepped out into a perfectly ordinary day. Sun beating down. A mild breeze. Sand. Surf. On the ground, howe...er, nothing was normal. Boards, steel reinforcing rods, chunks of concrete, shards of glass were scattered everywhere. Not a tree was left standing. They picked their way all around the building, only to find more devastation."OK," said Jim, "Now we check the emergency storage site."Josh led the way toward a tangled pile of tree trunks fifty feet. "Baby, what is it?" he asked urgently.At first she couldn't speak as she gripped the phone."B... Bobby... is... he says Bobby is... I... oh god..." Her hands fell into her lap as she stared sightlessly in front of her. Raul reached down and pried the cell phone from her hand.He hit the replay button for the current message in the queue. A detached but slightly somber voice began speaking, identifying himself as the night duty sergeant of the Columbia Police Department.He expressed his regret at. My sister had been lost in my past. I forgot what we did, forgot how she'd taught me about myself and about intimacy. I hid from myself the fact that she'd even existed."No," I finally managed to squeak. "I'm sorry ... I ... I forgot about her ... I didn't want to remember anything after she was gone ... I never talked about her because ... I'd let those memories go. I locked them away. I loved her so much, Kira ... I loved Jackie..."Kira was quiet a moment. "Jackie ... like ... Jacqueline?". When Tom arrived, Vinnie had a wide smile on his face. He led his friend into the windowless den and took out a can with the Hugglebugs logo on it."What does that stuff do, Vinnie?" Its supposed to make you irresistible to women." You've got to be kidding!" Tom was suspicious, but still curious. "How does it work?" "I just spray it on you. But first, you need to take off your clothes so they won't get stained or ruined." All of them?" Tom asked."You can leave your underwear on." Vinnie.
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