At night she wondered sometimes if she could just learn to die. It was so chilly that Newt got goosebumps all over his body when he undressed. He's gotten rid of me a time or two that way. I kept him in my memory for sixteen years.
She talked to dead relatives, dead babies, speaking to them as if they were still alive. Oh, yeah, them girls is apt to be rank, Lippy assured them. But Po Campo had caught a big sackful, and when his grease was hot he sprinkled them into it five or six at a time. Call helped Lippy and the cook tie down everything on the wagon.
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