“When you’re outside, speaking to Buhle through his many tendrils, like me, or even on the phone, he has all the power in the world. Svetlana upended the flask and gulped down half of it in three swallows. I moved Rosa’s belongings onto the front lawn: books and kitchenware and a few pieces of furniture. * * *The buildings belonged to a crumbling sports complex of which the food camp occupied one end, the yellow tarps and tents shading expanses of cracked asphalt and pools of stagnant water.
“So I changed careers. She was eating next to nothing and sleeping little. Pete says that an ex-Mormon goofball who isn’t here six weeks isn’t going to want to hurt Wade Tanner. The coach coughs—a hard wet bark meant to win attention.
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