I'm finally able to function enough to make some phone calls. How are you doing, Sis?" I'm fine, Bro, and have a ton of news for you. I used a lot of ...my trust to buy into a club here in South Beach. It's a money maker so far, but you have to be careful with entertainment clubs because they often go bust because the owners either take too much out, or they don't watch the store. This is my sixth month and the club's making money and the other two partners and I aren't taking anything but a small. He hadn’t really struggled with any of the others, though he said some of them were very far away, and felt faint to him. “I can’t find her,” he said, again. He turned in a circle, as if that might help. I glanced through the article and felt chills run down my spine.“You can’t find her because she’s dead,” I said. “The article is about the accident that took her life.”He looked at the photo again.“Her colors are there,” he said.“As is the part of her photograph that the rest of us can see,” I. Anyway after afew days I kind of stopped worrying about it for the most part because Ijust got used to it and by the time Christmas Eve came it had been likeabout nine or maybe ten days and I wasn't really thinking about it muchanymore. The were a couple of presents under the tree for me and a couplefrom me to my Mom and that was about it and we both went to bed earlythat night.So I got up Christmas morning and went downstairs to start breakfast andI looked at at the tree and there were piles. I belatedly noticed the housewarming plant she was carrying."Did you ever... ?" I couldn't bring myself to ask." ... use this stuff?" She guffawed. "Once. Well, kind of. Mom and Daddy were away, you were out with Mac somewhere. I had been obsessed with what I saw down here. It was all I could think about, day and, uh, well, night."My stoic sister actually blushed!"Since I had the house to myself, I snuck down here and tried some of the stuff out. It was hot. I pretended I was imprisoned down.
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