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Friday, October 5, 2012

22 deadtime

   four . the canyon.
jack oulled his digital camera fronm his pack and powered it up .
\jules , the women with the confident voice  who'd remembered that the missing woman had curly brown hair and lovely eyes , noticed the stranger eyeing the camera , she said , " that's jack . it's  what he does  , ignore him , he'll stot soon .
jack said , " not much light . my last battery 's almost dead ."
jules was a twenty-five-year 0old litigator who had just signed on with a big firm in west . L.A  she untiied a red kerchief from around her neck and wallked over to  the shirtless  man the way a mother with a washcloth approaches a young clid with detritus of breakfast stuck to his chin . withoout asking if he mined being groomed by a stranger , she   then  used her fingers to push his hair  back so that it didn't completely shadow his eyes .
she said , " that's better  . tell us your friend's name ."
the shirtless man crinkled his nose and rubbed at his nostril .  he was baffled as to why  that had made anything better , he had to force himself to refocus in order to ponder her question .
 his apparent distraction and his hesitation in replying were not encouraging signs . finally he said , " jaana , " " as though he was  please  to have remembered the woman 's naame ." two a's . or three , i guess ."

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