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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmwhen Church’s hot, furry body oiled against hisankle like a low eddy of water, followed by its loathsome tail, curling against his calf like a clutchingsnake, and then Louis did scream; he opened his mouth wide and screamed.“Daddy!” Ellie screamed.28She ran up the jet way toward him, weaving in and out between deplaning passengers like a quarterbackon a keeper play. Most of them stood aside, grinning. Louis was a little embarrassed by her ardor, but hefelt a large, stupid grin spreading across his own face just the same.Rachel was carrying Gage in her arms, and he saw Louis when Ellie shouted. “Dayeee!” he yelledexuberantly and began to wriggle in Rachel’s arms. She smiled (a trifle wearily, Louis thought) and sethim on his feet. He began to run after Ellie, his legs pumping busily. “Dayeee! Dayeee!”Louis had time to notice that Gage was wearing a jumper he had never seen before—it looked like moreof Grandda’s work to Louis. Then Ellie hurtled into him and shinnied up him like a tree.“Hi, Daddy!” she bellowed and smacked his cheek heartily.“Hi, hon,” he said and bent over to catch Gage. He pulled him up into the crook of his arm and huggedthem both. “I’m glad to see you back.”Rachel came up then, her traveling bag and pocketbook slung over one arm, Gage’s diaper bag slungover the other. I’LL BE A BIG BOY SOON was printed on the side of the diaper bag, a sentimentprobably meant more to cheer up the parents than the diaper-wearing child. She looked like aprofessional photographer at the end of a long, grueling assignment.Louis bent between his two kids and planted a kiss on her mouth. “Hi.”“Hi, Doe,” she said, and smiled.“You look beat.”“I am beat. We got as far as Boston with no problem. We changed planes with no problem. We took offwith no problem. But as the plane is banking over the city, Gage looks down and says, ‘Pretty, pretty,’and then whoopses all over himself.”“Oh, Jesus.”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (134 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM