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we say yes, I agreethat clouds often look like other things--fish and unicorns and men onhorseback--but they are really only clouds. Thatwas when he took the oxygen mask from her--there was a little air-bottleattached to it on an elastic--and put it over his mouth and nose. One Sunday, right after his thirteenth birthday, he'd-74-walked home from church with his mother and Henry feeling hungry and wondering al the way if they were going to have fried chicken for dinner. In some ways, that had been the worst of it--trying tocope not just with the apparition of the drown

She cried harder. Then I laughed (albeit a little doubtfully). Panning for gold. e a bleary pass at me on the night after Christmas,when she caught me alone in the kitchen making a turkey sandwich.