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course, even in high school.
He thought of turning on the lights but did not. His mind was tied like a Kansas
mule to the thought of a Jack Russell terrier and Derek Sullivan’s arms and a pair of
small grapefruits and the ice cream cone he had once paid seven dollars for and the
tickets were twenty dollars too. His marriage and his wife and new five hundred dollar
granite countertops, this call that came once a year, no comment, not once had she
invited him upstairs.
Blaine Eubanks, M.D.
Class of 2008
SCOPE 2009
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