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'Just let me think a minute. Every woman in the house was at least as old as he,surely older. 'I thought I told you to stay where you were,' Owen said. Like the fire.

For a terrible, brilliant moment he never forgot, he was neither Jonesy Number One, the confident pre-accident Jonesy, or Jonesy Nu I got thinking about stuff, I guess — one thing the woods are great for is thinking about stuff — and then I was on my own. Those are guilt. Then it shrivels like the dream it always was and becomes something familiar.