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“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized ...”
“She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.”
“But this dagger this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boys toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.”
“She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.”
“But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.”
