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Charley had joined a local of an A. She couldn't recognize the streets even, in this new Paris ful of arclights and flags and bands and drunken people. KyraDevore was the only kid of stuffed-animal age I'd met recently, but shehad been sleeping peacefully under her cabbage-rose coverlet when I lefther mother and headed home. Her lips pressedtogether.

Dad had bought a new Tudor style house way out and al her spare time was taken up picking out furniture and hanging curtains and arranging the rooms. I climbed the stairs toward the laughter and shouts, the sounds of theRed-Tops and the calliope, the smells of fried food and farm animals. The rest ofthe time. The sound issweet and faint and beautiful,' distance and echo has tuned every sourvoice.