Dancing Tides (77 page)

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l
ea
n
e
d ov
e
r,
g
a
ve
h
i
m a
p
ec
k on the
c
h
ee
k.
“
G
ot it.
L
e
t me
know
how
it
g
o
e
s
w
ith Co
r
d.
He’
s the
f
i
r
st m
a
n
t
o s
e
nd me
f
lo
w
e
r
s in a
d
e
ca
d
e
.
”

“H
e
g
e
ts points
f
or
th
a
t
t
h
e
n.
I
p
r
omise
I
’
ll m
a
k
e
up
m
y
time
h
e
r
e
on Mo
n
d
a
y
mo
r
ni
n
g
f
or
su
re
. Count on it.”

“
S
e
e
y
a
, P
e
t
e
.
Y
ou t
a
ke
c
ar
e
w
ith
B
e
t
t
y
. S
af
e
s
e
x
,
re
m
e
mb
er
?
”

“Yea
h,
y
e
a
h. Sm
ar
t
a
ss
,
”
he
mutt
ere
d
a
s
h
e
st
r
utt
e
d to his pi
c
kup like
a
m
a
n
w
ith a
w
om
a
n in his li
fe
.

Af
t
e
r
P
e
te
l
e
f
t,
Ke
e
g
a
n
c
ouldn
’
t s
e
ttl
e
.

W
h
a
t she
should be
doing
is
w
o
r
ki
n
g
on a
p
a
p
e
r
sh
e’
d hop
e
d to
g
e
t publis
h
e
d
a
bout how
e
nvi
r
onm
e
nt
a
l pollut
a
nts d
a
m
a
g
e
d m
ar
i
n
e
m
a
mm
a
ls. She
a
lso n
ee
d
e
d to bl
o
c
k o
f
f
some
s
e
r
ious
c
omput
e
r
time
to
wr
ite
a
p
r
opos
a
l
f
or
the
g
ra
nt to
g
o
w
ith the
stu
d
y
.

I
nst
e
a
d she
f
inish
e
d the
l
a
und
r
y
,
c
h
e
c
k
e
d on
J
ac
k
a
nd
D
o
d
g
er
,
m
e
di
ca
ti
n
g both,
a
nd th
e
n
ca
me
b
a
c
k to
z
a
p h
e
r
f
r
o
z
en
, t
a
st
e
l
e
ss, v
e
g
g
i
e
pi
zz
a.

A
s she
a
te
she
rea
li
z
e
d
s
h
e
fe
lt out of
so
r
ts. M
a
y
b
e
it
wa
s b
e
c
a
use
it
wa
s
S
a
tu
r
d
a
y
n
i
g
h
t
a
nd P
e
te
did h
a
ve
a
d
a
te
a
nd sh
e
—like
so m
a
n
y
o
t
h
e
r
S
a
tu
r
d
a
y
n
i
g
hts in the
p
a
st—did not. P
e
te
wa
s
r
i
g
ht.
He
r
l
ac
k of
a
s
oc
i
a
l li
f
e
e
qu
a
l
e
d a
v
e
r
y
long
d
r
o
u
g
ht. She
g
l
a
n
ce
d
a
t
G
uinn
e
ss.
“
So
w
h
a
t if
I
’
m sp
e
ndi
n
g
a
n
o
th
e
r
ni
g
ht sh
a
r
ing
m
y
e
v
e
ning
w
ith a
bun
c
h
o
f
inju
re
d
a
nd si
c
k
a
nim
a
ls.
T
h
e
y
n
ee
d m
e
,
”
she
r
ea
s
on
ed
.

A
nd
G
od
wa
s she
fee
li
n
g so
r
r
y
f
or
h
er
s
e
lf
o
r
w
h
a
t
?

She
put h
e
r
pl
a
te
in the
d
ish
wa
sh
e
r
a
nd d
u
g
out
a
b
a
g
o
f
pop
c
o
r
n
fr
om the
p
a
nt
r
y
.
W
hile it popp
e
d she
kn
e
w
she
n
ee
d
e
d to
g
e
t out of
this b
l
ue
mood.

W
h
e
n the
mi
cr
o
wa
ve
di
n
g
e
d s
h
e
e
mpti
e
d the
pip
i
ng
hot b
a
g
into a
bo
w
l
a
n
d
we
nt o
f
f
to the
living
r
oom to s
e
ttle
in
fr
ont of
the
TV
. She
p
e
r
us
e
d the
DVD
s, slid a
d
i
sc
into the
pl
a
y
e
r
.
T
he
movie
Sabrina
, the
1954
c
l
a
ssic
not the
re
m
a
k
e
,
wa
s the
l
a
st movie
sh
e
’
d
wa
t
c
h
e
d
w
ith h
e
r
g
r
a
ndmoth
er
. She
s
i
g
h
e
d
a
nd s
a
t do
w
n on the
c
o
u
c
h, l
e
tting
G
uinn
e
ss
c
u
r
l
u
p
a
t h
e
r
f
ee
t.