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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    6:39 pm
    @@@@@ Sophia's private drawing room was next
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    Sophia's private drawing room was next Scarlett'sIt was second best
    in terms of furnishings and the Saint Stephen's Green, but first in
    terms of people vying for sionNot that Scarlett's was by any means
    unattended; a rich well-received widow with fascinating green eyes
    would always demandWhy should I be surprised, thought Scarlett
    I'm
    twice her and I had my turn last yearBut sometimes she had trouble
    holding her tongue when Sophia's name was linked with Luke'sIt
    was
    common knowledge that a duke had asked for Sophia's hand, but
    everyone
    agreed that she'd do better to take FentonA duke had precedence
    over
    an earl, but Fenton was forty times richer and a hundred times
    handsomer than the Duke"And he's mine if I want him," Scarlett
    longed to sayWho'd they be writing ballads about then? She scolded
    herself for her pettinessShe told herself she was a fool for
    thinking of Fenton's prediction that she would be forgotten after a
    year or twoAnd she tried not to worry about the little lines in the
    skin beside her eyesScarlett returned to Ballyhara for her First
    Sunday office hours, thankful to get away from DublinThe final
    weeks
    of the Season seemed endlessIt was good to be home, good to be
    thinking about something real, like Paddy O'Faolain's request for a
    bigger allocation of peat, instead of what to wear to the next party
    And it was pure heaven to have Cat's strong little arms nearly strangle
    her with a fierce hug of welcomeWhen the last dispute had been
    settled, the last request granted, Scarlett went to the morning room
    for tea with Cat"I saved your half," Cat saidHer mouth was
    smeared with chocolate from the eclairs Scarlett had brought from
    Dublin"It's a funny thing, Kitty Cat, but I'm not real hungry
    Would you like some more?"
    "YesMay I eat them now?"
    "Yes, you may, Miss Pig The eclairs were gone before Scarlett's cup
    was emptyCat was dedicated when it came to eclairs"Where shall
    we
    go for our walk?" Scarlett asked h
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    6:46 pm
    @@@@@I was sure his first reaction would be
    @@@@@I was sure his first reaction would be anger, but when I heard him speak, his
    voice was cool
    “Doc,” he said, and I heard the cot behind me shake
    I jerked my hand free, whirling, disoriented, to see the face that went with the unmistakable
    voice
    His eyes were on me as he shook the sleeping man's shoulderThey were impossible to read in
    the dim lightHis face had no expression at all
    Melanie jolted into awarenessShe pored over his features, trying to read the thoughts behind
    the mask
    “Gladdie! Don't leave! Don't!” Walter's screech had Doc bolting upright, nearly capsizing his
    cot
    I spun back to Walter, shoving my sore hand into his searching fingers
    “Shhh, shhh! Walter, I'm here
    He quieted down, whimpering like a small childI wiped the damp cloth over his forehead; his
    sob hitched and turned into a sigh
    “What's that about?” Jared murmured behind me
    “She's the best painkiller I've been able to find,” Doc said wearily
    “Well, I've found you something better than a tame Seeker
    My stomach knotted, and Melanie hissed in my heado stupidly, blindly stubborn! she
    growlede wouldn't believe you if you told him the sun sets in the west
    But Doc was beyond caring about the slight to me“You found something!”
    “Morphine–there's not muchI would have gotten here sooner if the Seeker hadn't pinned me
    down out there
    Doc was instantly in actionI heard him rustling through something papery, and he crowed in
    delight“Jared, you're the miracle man!”
    “Doc, just a sec…”
    But Doc was at my side already, his haggard face alight with anticipati
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    6:47 pm
    @@@@@The firing had not abated, but through it he
    @@@@@The firing had not abated, but through it he heard someone shouting in JapaneseHe pointed the gun in the air
    "Here they come," Croft said
    He fired the flare and shouted, "STOP 'EM!"
    A shrill cry came out of the jungle across the riverIt was the scream a man might utter if his foot was being crushed"AAAIIIIII, AAAIIIIIIII
    The flare burst at the moment the Japanese started their chargeCroft had a split perception of the Japanese machine gun firing from a flank, and then he began to fire automatically, not looking where he fired, but holding his gun low, swinging it from side to sideHe could not hear the other guns fire, but he saw their muzzle blasts like exhausts
    He had a startling frozen picture of the Japanese running toward him across the narrow river"AAAAIIIIIIIIIIH," he heard againIn the light of the flare the Japanese had the stark frozen quality of men revealed by a shaft of lightningCroft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instantHe could never have counted the Japanese who charged across the river; he knew only that his finger was rigid on the trigger barHe could not have loosened itIn those few moments he felt no sense of danger
    The line of men who charged across the river began to fallIn the water they were slowed considerably and the concentrated fire from recon's side raged at them like a wind across an open fieldThey began to stumble over the bodies ahead of themCroft saw one soldier reach into the air behind another's body as though trying to clutch something in the sky and Croft fired at him for what seemed many seconds before the arm collapsed
    He looked to his right and saw three men trying to cross the river where it turned and ran parallel to the bluffHe swung the gun about and lashed them with itOne man fell, and the other two paused uncertainly and began to run back toward their own bank of the riverCroft had no time to follow them; some soldiers had reached the beach on his side and were charging the gunHe fired point blank at them, and they collapsed about five yards from his hole
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    6:47 pm
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    tonic to Scarlett's spiritSo was the disorder on her desk at the
    house
    She needed life and action around her after the numbing succession of
    deaths, and she needed work to doThere were stacks of newspapers
    to
    be read, piles of daily business accounts from the general store she
    owned in the very center of Five Points, mounds of bills to be paid,
    and circulars to tear up and throw away
    Scarlett sighed with tank louis pleasure and pulled her chair up close to the
    deskShe checked the freshness of the ink in its stand and the supply
    of nibs for her penThen she lit the lampIt would be dark long
    before she finished all this; maybe she'd even have her supper on a
    tray tonight while she workedShe reached eagerly for the store
    accounts, then her hands stopped in midair when a large square
    envelope on top of the newspapers caught her eyeIt was addressed
    simply omega watches prices "Scarlett," and the handwriting was Rhett'sI won't read it
    now, she thought at once, it'll just get in the way of all the things
    I've got to doI'm not worried about what's in it-not a bit-I just
    don't want to look at it nowI'll save it, she told herself, like for
    dessertAnd she picked up a handful of ledger sheetsBut she kept
    losing track of the arithmetic she was doing in her and finally she
    threw the accounts downHer fingers tore the sealed louis vuitton prices envelope open
    Believe me, Rhett's letter began, when Isay that you have my deepest
    sympathy in your bereavement Mammy's death il a great lossI am
    grate4l that you nortfed me in time for me to see her before she
    went
    Scarlett looked up in a rage from the thick black pen strokes and
    spoke
    aloud"'Grateful,' my foot!
    So you could lie to her and to me, you varmint She wished she could
    burn the letter and throw the ashes in Rhett's face, shouting gucci fabric the words
    at himOh, she'd get even with him for shaming her in front of
    Suellen and WillNo matter how long she had to wait and plan, she'd
    find a way somehowHe had no right to treat her that way, to treat
    Mammy that way, to make a sham out of her last wishes like thatI'll
    burn it now, I won't even read the rest, I don't have to put my eyes to
    any more of hislies! Her hand fumbled for the box of matches, but
    when
    she held it, she dropped it at chanel logo earrings
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    6:39 pm
    @@@@@ Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE
    @@@@@
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    171
    Suddenly, filling the air above in chilling horror, came a prolonged excruciating scream,
    followed by words shrieked in pain“Non, non! Vous êtes monstrueux! Arrêtez, arrêtez, je vous
    supplie!”
    “Now!” cried Jason, slinging the strap of his Uzi over his shoulder as he leaped onto the wall,
    gripping the edge, pulling himself up as the blood poured out of his neckHe could not get up! He
    could not get over! Then strong hands pulled him and he fell over the top of the wall“The lights!”
    he shouted“Shoot them out!”
    The tall commando’s Uzi blazing, the lines of floodlights exploded in the ground on both sides
    of the chapel’s pathAgain, strong black hands pulled him to his feet in the new darknessAnd then
    a single shaft of yellow appeared, roving swiftly in all directions; it was a powerful halogen
    flashlight in the commando’s left handThe figure of a blood-drenched old man in a tan gabardine
    suit lay curled up in the path, his throat slit
    “Stop! In the name of almighty God, stop where you are!” came Fontaine’s voice from inside
    the chapel, the open half door revealing the flickering light of the electric candlesThey approached
    the entrance, automatic weapons leveled, prepared for continuous fire but not prepared for what
    they sawBourne closed his eyes, the sight was too painfulOld Fontaine, like young Ishmael, was
    sprawled over the lectern on the raised platform beneath the blown-out, stained-glass windows of
    the left wall, his face running with blood where he had been slashed, and attached to his body were
    thin cables that led to various black boxes on both sides of the chapel
    “Go back!” screamed Fontaine“Run, you fools! I’m wired—”
    “Oh, Christ!”
    “Mourn not for me, Monsieur le CaméléonI gladly join my woman! This world is too ugly
    even for meIt is no longer amusingRun! The charge will go off—they are watching!”
    “You, mon! Now!” roared the second commando, grabbing Jason’s jacket and racing him to the
    wall, holding Bourne in his arms as they plummeted over the stone surface into the thick foliage
    The explosion was massive, blinding and deafeningIt was as if this small corner of the small
    island had been taken out by a heat-seeking nuclear missileFlames erupted into the night sky, but
    the burning mass was quickly diffused in the still wind to fiery rubble
    “The path!” shouted Jason, in a hoarse whisper, as he crawled to his feet in the sloping brush
    “Get to the path!”
    “You’re in bad condition, mon—”
    “I’ll take care of me, you take care of you!”
    “I believe I’ve taken care of both of us
    “So you’ve got a fucking medal and I’ll add a lot of money to
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    6:39 pm
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    than your IQ times a hundred, never borrow from a
    man who calls you by your first name on first
    acquaintance, never take a drink while the sun's
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    I did have an accountant I trusted, however, and
    it was Tom Riley who helped me move the few things
    I needed from Mendota Heights to our smaller place
    on Lake PhalenTom, a sad two-time loser in the
    marriage game, worried at me all the way out"You
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    I remember her sitting cross-legged in her leotard,
    holding my feet and looking at me with grim
    outrage
    "Here you are, just out of Death's Motel and short
    an arm, and she wants to call it offBecause you
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    being such a wimp Some hair had escaped from her
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    6:44 pm
    @@@@@ Ian started to rise again “Hey!” Jared
    @@@@@
    Ian started to rise again
    “Hey!” Jared explodedHis voice was so loud that everyone jumped“Wanda's not on trial
    here! Does someone have a concrete complaint against her–against Wanda herself? Then ask for
    another tribunalBut we all know she hasn't harmed anyone hereIn fact, she saved his life He
    stabbed one finger toward Kyle's backKyle's shoulders hunched, like he'd felt the jab“Just
    seconds after he tried to throw her into the river, she risked her life to keep him from the same
    painful deathShe had to know that if she let him fall she would be safer hereShe saved him
    anywayWould any of you have done the same–rescue your enemy? He tried to kill her, and yet
    will she even speak against him?”
    I felt all the eyes in the dark room on my face as Jared now held his hand out, palm up, toward
    me
    “Willyou speak against him, Wanda?”
    I stared at him wide-eyed, stunned that he was speaking for me, that he was speakingto me,
    that he was using my nameMelanie was in shock, too, torn in halfShe was overjoyed at the
    kindness in his face as he looked at us, the softness in his eyes that had been absent so longBut
    it wasmy name he'd said…
    It was a few seconds before I could find my voice
    “This is all a misunderstanding,” I whispered“We both fell when the floor caved inNothing
    else happened I hoped the whisper would make it harder to hear the lie in my voice, but as
    soon as I was done, Ian chuckledI nudged him with my elbow, but that didn't stop him
    Jared actually smiled at meShe even tries to lie in his defense
    “Triesbeing the operative word,” Ian added
    “Who says it's lying? Who can prove that?” Maggie asked harshly, stepping forward into the
    empty space beside Kyle
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    6:47 pm
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    6:47 pm
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    dollars
    of real moneyShe was a wealthy woman in her own right by most
    people's reckoningShe still didn't feel safeI
    could buy the business back from Ashley, she thought, and for a
    moment
    her mind hummed with excitement, with possibilities
    That wouldn't solve anything
    Ashley was such a fool he'd fake louis vuitton bags insist on taking only what he could get on
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    made a
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    No, no matter how much she would love to get her hands on that
    lumberyard and the sawmills, she had to make Ashley successful at it
    I just don't believe that there's no market for lumberPanic or no
    Panic, people have chanel watch j12 got to be building something, if it's only a shed
    for a cow or a horseScarlett riffled through the stack of books and
    papers
    There it was, the plot of the farmland Charles Hamilton left her
    The farms produced almost no income at allWhat good did a couple
    of
    baskets of corn and a single bale of seedy cotton do her?
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    the edge of Atlanta now, the way things were growingIf she could
    find a good builder-and they must all be feeling mighty hungry for
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    hundred
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    see to it that the builder uses only lumber from Ashley, and the best
    he's got, tooHe'll be making money-not a fortune, but good steady
    income-and he'll never know it came from meI can manage that
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    6:39 pm
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    “You could be taken out, neutralized—have an accident
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    190
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    “It’s in the blood rushing through our veinsBeat the enemy in the deadly
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    6:39 pm
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    been waiting
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    9:23 AM
    December 23
    Already cleared it w/ Mom, she says okay
    Tried to talk Lin into it, but she'd rather stay
    here before flying back to FranceDon't hold it
    against her
    Ilse
    PS: Yippee! I'm excited!!
    Don't hold it against herIt seemed that my If-
    So-Girl had been saying that about her older
    sister ever since she could talkLin doesn't want
    to go on the weenie roast because she doesn't like
    125
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    can't wear that kind of sneakers because none of
    the kids in her class wear hightops anymoreso
    don't hold it against herLin wants Ryan's Dad to
    take them to the prombut don't hold it against
    herAnd you know the bad part? I never didI
    could have told Linnie that preferring Ilse was
    like growing up lefthanded - something over which
    I had no control - and that would only have made
    it worse, even though it was the truthMaybe
    especially because it was the truth
    viii
    Ilse coming to Duma Key, to Big PinkYippee, she
    was excited, and yippee, I was, tooJack had
    found me a stout lady named Juanita to clean twice
    a week, and I had her make up the guest bedroomI
    also asked her if she'd bring some fresh flowers
    the day after ChristmasSmiling, she suggested
    something that sounded like creamus cackusMy
    brain, by then quite comfortable with the fine art
    of cross-connection, was stopped by this for no
    126
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    On Christmas Eve I found myself re-reading Ilse's
    original e-mail
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    6:52 pm
    @@@@@ I took a deep breath, felt it expand my
    @@@@@
    I took a deep breath, felt it expand my lungs
    “I know how to do what you've been ending so many lives to discoverI know how to take the
    souls from your bodies without harm to eitherOf course I know thatWe all have to, in case of
    an emergencyI even performed the emergency procedure once, when I was a Bear
    I stared at him, waiting for his responseIt took him a long moment, and his eyes grew wilder
    every second
    “Why are you telling me this?” he finally gasped
    “Because I… I am going to give you the knowledge you need I held up my hand again“But
    only if you will give me what I want in returnI'm warning you right now, it won't be any easier
    for you to give me what I want than it will be for me to give you what you want
    His face was fiercer than I'd ever seen it
    “You can't kill them–the souls you removeYou must give me your word–your promise, your
    oath, your vow–that you will give them safe conduct on to another lifeThis means some
    danger; you will have to have cryotanks, and you will have to get those souls onto shuttles
    off-planetYou have to send them to another world to liveBut they won't be able to hurt you
    By the time they reach their next planet, your grandchildren will be dead
    Would my conditions mitigate my guilt in this? Only if Doc could be trusted
    He was thinking very hard as I explainedI watched his face to see what he would make of my
    demandHe didn't look angry, but his eyes were still wild
    “You don't want us to kill the Seeker?” he gue
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    9:48 pm
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    Later, returning to his headquarters in the jeep, he was in an excellent moodHis body was still keyed, still the least bit feverish, but the excitement it caused him went beyond restlessness, and charged his brain to intense activityYet it was random casual thought; he amused himself the way a child would sport in a toy store if given complete freedom to touch everything and cast it away when tiredCummings was not unconscious of the processAny new physical action always aroused him, infused his perceptions
    When he reached his tent, he looked cursorily at the few dispatches that had collected in his absenceHe had no taste at this moment for going through them, for performing the detailed labors of digesting and committing to memory the important portionsFor an instant he stepped outside his tent and breathed the night air againThe bivouac had become silent, almost ghostly, and the moonlight illumined the mists in the clearing, covered the foliage with a tenuous silver nettingIn his mood everything familiar seemed unrealHow alien the earth is at night, he sighed
    In the tent, he hesitated a moment, and then unlocked a small green filing cabinet on the side of his desk, removing from it a heavy notebook bound in black like a law ledgerIt was a journal in which he had jotted down his private ideas for many yearsThere had been a time when he had told them to Margaret, but after the first year or two of their marriage, when they had turned away from each other, the importance of the journal had increased, and in the years that had followed he had filled many ledgers, sealed them, and stored them away
    Yet when he wrote in it, the journal always had a touch of the clandestine as though he were a boy locking himself with guilty anticipation in the bathroomOn a higher level, many of his feelings were the same -- almost unconsciously he would prepare an excuse in case he was discovered"If you'll wait a moment, Major [or Colonel or Lieutenant], I'm just jotting some memorandum
    Now he turned to the first blank page in his journal, held his pencil, and thought for a moment or twoAny number of new ideas and impressions had evolved on the trip back from the battery, and he waited, knowing his mind would produce them againOnce more he experienced the smooth ovoid surface of the lanyard handleLike holding the beast at the end of a string, he thought
    The image set off a round of ideasHe inscribed the date at the head of the page, rolled his pencil once between his fingertips, and began to write

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    fishIt couldn't be true! Unwelcome pictures filled her mind
    Maureen holding up her glass for another whiskeyplaying the bones
    and singing lustily all the verses of bawdy songs brushing her
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    lifting her skirts to her knees to dance the reel They were all kind of commonScarlett felt
    like
    crying
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    could
    see me walking on the street with a bunch like I just came home with
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    belly,
    and a million children running all over the place like wild Indians,
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    trashy as the rest of themAnd Mother tried so hard to teach me to
    be
    a ladyShe'd be happy she was dead if she knew that her daughter
    was
    friends with a woman who worked in a saloonScarlett looked
    anxiously
    at the old manCould he possibly know about the building she owned
    in
    Atlanta and rented to a saloonkeeper? Pierre kelly hermes Robillard's eyes were
    closedHe seemed to have slipped into the sudden sleep of old age
    Scarlett tiptoed out of the roomWhen she closed the door behind
    her,
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    6:46 pm
    @@@@@When we questioned him about this, he
    @@@@@When we questioned him about this, he claimed to have no memory of certain
    statements and actionsWe continued to observe him, along with his Comforter, and eventually
    discovered that the host was periodically taking control of Kevin's body
    “Taking control?” My eyes strained wide“With the soul unaware? The host took the body
    back?”
    “Sadly, yesKevin was not strong enough to suppress this host
    Would they think me weak as well?Was I weak, that I could not force this mind to answer my
    questions? Weaker still, because her living thoughts had existed in my head where there should
    be nothing but memory? I'd always thought of myself as strongThis idea of weakness made me
    flinch
    The Healer continued“Certain events occurred, and it was decided –”
    “What events?”
    The Healer looked down without answering
    “What events?”I demanded again“I believe I have a right to knowKevin… physically attacked a Healer while not… himself“He knocked the Healer unconscious with a blow from his fist and then found a scalpel
    on her personWe found him insensibleThe host had tried to cut the soul out of his body
    It took me a moment before I could speakEven then, my voice was just a breath“What
    happened to them?”
    “Luckily, the host was unable to stay conscious long enough to inflict real damageKevin was
    relocated, into an immature host this timeThe troublesome host was in poor repair, and it was
    decided there wasn't much point in saving him
    “Kevin is seven human years old now and perfectly normal… aside from the fact that he kept
    the name Kevin, that isHis guardians are taking great care that he is heavily exposed to music,
    and that is coming along well” The last was added as if it were good news–news that could
    somehow cancel out the rest
    “Why?” I cleared my throat so that my voice could gain some volume“Why have these risks
    not been shared?”
    “Actually,” the Seeker broke in, “it is very clearly stated in all recruitment propaganda that
    assimilating the remaining adult human hosts is much more challenging than assimilating a
    child
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    7:16 pm
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    shudderThey had been only imagination, surely,
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    vaguely like "Abide with Me," a professionally
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    6:53 pm
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    @@@@@ Both of my dads were teachersMy rich dad taught me a lesson I have carried all my life, and that was the necessity of being charitable or givingMy educated dad gave a lot by the way of time and knowledge, but almost never gave away money As I said, he usually said that he would give when he had some extra moneyOf course, there was rarely any extra
    My rich dad gave money as well as educationHe believed firmly in tithing"If you want something, you first need to give," he would always sayWhen he was short of money, he simply gave money to his church or to his favorite charity
    If I could leave one single idea with you, it is that ideaWhenever you feel "short" or in "need" of something, give what you want first and it will come back in bucketsThat is true for money, a smile, love, friendshipI know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but; it has always worked for meI just trust that the principle of reciprocity it is true, and I give what I wantI want money, so I give money, and it comes back in multiplesI want sales, so I help someone else sell something, and sales come to meI want contacts and I help someone else get contacts, and like magic, contacts come to meI heard a saying years ago that went, "God does not need to receive, but humans need to give
    My rich dad would often say, "Poor people are more greedy than rich people He would explain that if a person was rich, that person was providing something that other people wantedIn my life, over all these ; years, whenever I have felt needy or short of money or short of help, I simply went out or found in my heart what I wanted, and decided to give it firstAnd when I gave, it always came back
    It reminds me of the story of the guy sitting with firewood in his arms on a cold freezing night, and he is yelling at the pot-bellied stove, "When you give me some heat, then I'll put some wood in And when it comes to money, love, happiness, sales and contacts, all one needs to remember is first to give what you want and it will come back in droves ? Often just the process of thinking of what I want, and how could I give what I want to someone else, breaks free a torrent of bou
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    6:53 pm
    @@@@@Against his will he stared up at the
    @@@@@Against his will he stared up at the tessellated stones and jungle of the upper ridges, closed his eyes and saw the ramp of the landing boat going downHis body tensed, waiting for the machine-gun fireNothing happened and he opened his eyes, racked by an acute frustrationSomething had to happen
    If only he could see a snapshot of his kid, Gallagher thought"It's a goddam trap goin' up this mountain," he muttered
    Gallagher extended his arm, touched Martinez's elbow for a moment"Why don't we go back?" he asked
    "It's fuggin suicideWhat are we, a bunch of goddam mountain goats?" He rubbed the coarse itching hairs of his beard"Listen, we'll all get knocked off
    Martinez wriggled his toes inside his boots, extracting a bleak satisfaction
    "You wanta get your fuggin head blown off?"
    "No He fingered the little tobacco pouch in his pocket where he kept the gold teeth he had stolen from the cadaverPerhaps he should throw them awayBut they were so pretty, so valuableMartinez wavered, then left them thereHe was struggling against the conviction that they would be an effective sacrifice
    "We ain't got a fuggin chance Gallagher's voice shook, and as if he were a sounding board, Martinez resonated to itThey sat staring at each other, bound by their common fearMartinez wished dumbly that he could assuage Gallagher's anxiety
    "Why don't you tell Croft to quit?"
    Martinez shiveredHe knew! He could tell Croft to go backBut the attitude was so foreign to him that he shied away from it fearf
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    7:08 pm
    @@@@@"I don't mind you spoiling that
    @@@@@"I don't mind you spoiling that animal
    rotten, if that's what you mean," she said
    Heavens no! Bart's gray eyes widenedWhat could have put such a
    thought in her head? It was something truly delicate, he explained
    Alice Harrington- she was the stoutish one at the hunt who'd ended up
    in the ditch -was having a house party at Midsummer Night, and she
    wanted to invite Scarlett but didn't have the nerveHe'd been
    appointed diplomat to sound her out about itScarlett had a hundred
    questionsEssentially they boiled down to when, where, and what to
    wearColum would be furious, she was sure, but she didn't careShe
    wanted to get dressed up and drink champagne and ride like the wind
    again over streams and fences following the hounds and the fox
    arrington House was a huge block of a house made of Portland stone
    It
    wasn't far from Ballyhara, just past a crossroads village named Pike
    CornerThe entrance was hard to find; there were no gates and no
    gatehouse, only a pair of unadorned and unmarked stone columns
    The
    gravel drive skirted a broad lake then turned into a plain gravelled
    area in front of the stone houseA footman came out of the front door
    at the sound of the buggy's wheelsHe handed Scarlett down, then
    turned her over to a maid who was waiting in the hallway"My name
    is
    Wilson, miss," she said with a curtsey"Will you be wanting to rest a
    bit after your journey or will you be joining the others?" Scarlett
    chose to join the others, and the footman led her the length of the
    hall to an open door onto a lawnO'Hara!" shouted Alice
    HarringtonNow Scarlett remembered her vividly"Ended up in a
    ditch" hadn't been much of a description, nor had "stout Fat and
    loud would have identified Alice Harrington for her at onceShe
    moved
    toward Scarlett with a surprisingly light step and bellowed that she
    was happy to see her"I do hope you like croquet, I'm terrible, and
    my team would adore to lose me 'I've never played," Scarlett said
    "All the better! You'll have beginner's lu
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    6:42 pm
    @@@@@ “It beats pipes,” Jared says, the crease
    @@@@@
    “It beats pipes,” Jared says, the crease between his eyes deepening as his brows pull together
    He seems worried by my laughIs he afraid I don't like it? “Nothing to trace, no evidence that
    we're here
    “I love it,” I say quickly“It's like an old movie
    The smile that never truly leaves his face–he smiles even in his sleep–grows wide“They don't
    tell you the worst parts in the moviesC'mon, I'll show you where the latrine is
    I hear Jamie's laughter echo through the narrow canyon as he runs ahead of usHis black hair
    bounces with his bodyHe bounces all the time now, this thin boy with the sun-darkened skinI
    hadn't realized how much weight those narrow shoulders were carryingWith Jared, he is
    positively buoyantThe anxious expression has faded, replaced by grinsWe are both more
    resilient than I gave us credit for
    “Who built this place?”
    “My father and older brothersI helped, or rather hindered, a littleMy dad loved to get away
    from everythingAnd he didn't care much about conventionHe never bothered to find out who
    the land actuallybelonged to or file permits or any of that pesky stuff Jared laughs, throwing
    his head backThe sun dances off the blond bits in his hair“Officially, this place doesn't exist
    Convenient, isn't it?” Without seeming to think about it, he reaches out and takes my hand
    My skin burns where it meets
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