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believed in ghosts though she’d never seen one, who could recite the details of a thousand famous hauntings that had involved spirits benign, malign, and Elvis. Now eighty years old, Granny Rose—Hoodoo Rose, as Hazard’s mom called her [472] with affection—was respected and much loved, but she remained a figure of amusement in the family because of her , seemed to be the most difficult decision die, I can’t bring you back, Dunny had said, with the emphasis on you.A cop couldn’t back off just because he feared dying. Might as well turn in the badge, get a job in a craft to fill up the empty hours.I’m not your guardian, Dunny had said, with the emphasis on your, which was a warningconviction that the world was not merely the five senses said it was.In spite of what he had just seen in the street, Hazard couldn’t get his mind entirely around the idea that Granny Rose might have a better grasp of reality than anyone he knew.He had never been a man who harbored much doubt about what to do next, either in daily life or in a moment of high peril, but sitting in the car, in the rain, in the dark, shivering, he needed time just to realize that he should turn on the engine, the heater. Whether or not he should ring the bell at the Laputa house, however
Sunday, 21 December 2008
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