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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmdeliberately closing your eyes to it.“Rachel,” he said, “Church is going to die.”She stared at him angrily. “That is hardly the point,” she said, enunciating each word carefully, speakingas one might speak to a backward child. “Church is not going to die today, or tomorrow—”“I tried to tell her that—”“Or the day after that, or probably for years—”“Honey, we can’t be sure of th—”“Of course we can!” she shouted. “We take good care .of him, he’s not going to die, no one is going todie around here, and so why do you want to go and get a little girl all upset about something she can’tunderstand until she’s much older?”“Rachel, listen.”But Rachel had no intention of listening. She was blazing. “It’s bad enough to try and cope with a death—a pet or a friend or a relative—when it happens, without turning it into a. . . a goddam touristattraction. . . a F-F-Forest Lawn for a-animals. . .“ Tears were running down her cheeks.“Rachel,” he said and tried to put his hands on her shoulders. She shrugged them off in a quick, hardgesture.“Never mind,” she said. “You don’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking about.”He sighed. “I feel like I fell through a hidden trapdoor and into a giant Mixmaster,” he said, hoping for asmile. He got none; only her eyes, locked on his, black and blazing. She was furious, he realized; notjust angry, but absolutely furious. “Rachel,” he said suddenly, not fully sure what he was going to sayuntil it was out, “how did you sleep last night?”“Oh boy,” she said scornfully, turning away—but not before he had seen a wounded flicker in her eyes.“That’s really intelligent. Really intelligent. You never change, Louis. When something isn’t goingright, blame Rachel, right? Rachel’s just having one of her weird emotional reactions.”“That’s not fair.”“No?” She took the bowl of cake batter over to the far counter by the stove and set it down with anotherbang. She began to grease a cake tin, her lips pressed tightly together.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Ste...%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (36 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM