”“Speaking of school It’s time to get going or you’ll be late to your graduation,” Carter informed me.My body wanted to shut down at his wor...s, “Can’t I skip? I’m not going to have any friends there. Sue isn’t going to be there because she was arrested yesterday.”“What? Little Susanna was arrested? What for?” Carter asked.I looked around and got close to Carter and quietly said, “She was caught having sex with the family dog.”“Seriously? Oh my God. Who caught her? Okay, nice joke. You can stop. The press began to notice the sudden epidemic of deceased dictators, and a few commentators even discussed the matter in their newspaper columns or blogs. There were increasingly frequent suggestions that the CIA, or some other international evildoer, might be behind the outbreak of Sudden Dictator Death Syndrome.But of course there was no evidence to be found anywhere that this growing group of miscreants had not simply met their Maker in close temporal proximity. The deaths were all just. Not tall, maybe five feet-one. She was more voluptuous then Mom's other cadre members. She had been painting a small canvas and paint smeared her smock.I remembered four or five years ago, when Polly used to come to the house with all of my mother's other friends. I think I liked her best of all. Well, I liked Connie too, but Polly would always speak and sometimes sit with me. She acted as if she really liked me and that could impress a fourteen-year-old boy.Polly did not ask after my mother.. .." Laura frowned."Yes you are," Tina offered the woman a reassuring smile. "Just a name, that's all." Um," Laura reminded herself that this was a Texas Ranger who was asking. "He was meeting with Coach Riles and Dr. Peterson." Floyd Peterson?" she asked. "The coroner?" Yes," Laura nodded. "Dr. Moore ... He's not in trouble, is he?" No," Tina shook her head. "I don't think so, but I do need to speak with him. Did he say where he was going?" He didn't say anything, really." Okay. May I?" She.