* Maria stops and looks at you/ lips curling into a sneer. *Men are no good. You dont need a man Rachel. They are shits. BIG SHITS.* She spits this ou... with the bitterness of too much experience. *Do you have a husband?* you ask. The question seems somehow comical once the words have left your mouth. You cough/ feeling strangely uncomfortable. Something about the way Maria is staring at you. *** CUT-UP no 32: PRIMITIVE TREES Imagine the scuzz. Pissing mud for dead flecks wriggling. Hard-on. " I think so. Jimmy, we need to use what we saw, and if we do I think we can solve two really big problems all at once. You know how Allison was saying that you needed cash to be safe if anything went wrong?" Yeah." We've got his account number and passwords. Let's clean him out, just take everything, then he has no income and maybe he'll have to expose himself and Rebecca will have a shot at him and..."It was my turn to cut her off, "Wait a second." I pulled out my phone and called. Most of it was pretty boring stuff but I felt I got to know Tamara very intimately. One evening I was reading the daily back and forth and the topic of birth control came up. In Tamara's letter she was asking if she should go on birth control. A girl at her school had been raped and had gotten pregnant from it. Tamara confessed that she was a virgin and had heard that you couldn't get pregnant the first time. Cathy wrote back that you could get "knocked up" and that when she turned eighteen she. Chung is scouting ahead so make sure you don't open fire until one of us gives the word. Whatever all of you do, keep your eyes open and let me know if you see something that's out of place or don't look right to you. Got it?"We split and started in. It seemed like we had been walking for hours when soft whistle came out of the dark. I stopped and waited warning the rest Chung was coming back. He must have been a half mile off when he whistled because it took awhile for him to show up in front.