The thought broke his passion apart, turned it to coals that fell in a bright shower, winking out one by one in a dark bewilderment. Close by, Eddie saw Jake taking off Oy’s booties. If this was what growing up was like, he thought he could have skipped the experience. Don’t make me tell you any of this twice.
“He’s right, lad,” Jonas said in his reedy, quavering voice. Her tears. Thankee-sai. His belly, Roland noticed, did not shake as one might have expected it to do; it was harder than it looked.
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