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about this business over the phone, long distance. I'll tell
you all about it tomorrow.…Right. So you better get in
the bed. How's the house doing, no problems?…Good.
Good." He sounded happy. She was relieved.
Judith had been married to John "Hawk" Haig for a
long time.
She didn't know him very well, though she knew
him a great deal better than he knew himself. In high
school she had gone out with him because he had been
so baffled and unhappy and angry whenever she tried to
refuse. As for Hawk, the fact that he had been taunted
by his popular friends for being in love with Judith
Sorrow was a fact of the same order as learning in his
senior year that a damaged kneecap would cost him a
college football scholarship, and therefore college. He
felt sorry for himself on both accounts. Ironic that he,
captain of his team and his class, who could have any
girl in Dixwell High, had wanted the one, the only one
perhaps, oblivious of, or indifferent to, his public
desirability. As ironic as having his knee crushed
because he stepped out of a friend's car just when some
hot rodder didn't watch where he was backing up. Both