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◊; Copyright 2004 by Joel Dueck. All Rights Reserved.

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There he was. How many times had Irene watched, in rapt attention, as he had calmly and
knowledgeably predicted a cold front moving in on the ten o’clock news? And there he was, fumbling
for the keys to his ’88 station wagon. All she needed was a pretext.
