"what ?"
" the hair - pulling . it's called trichotilomania . it's a psychological ....condition ."
she looked at me as thuough i'd just made a gerbil appear from her ear ." how do you know that ?"
"'m a psychologist ," i said .
"spell it ," she said .
i did . her lips barely moved as she silently repeated the progreeion of letters . it was like watching a ventriloquist at work .
i said ," nice meeting you , amy ."
i returned to the car and dove away . the camry's instrument dispalys were telling me things about the status of its batteries that i didn't comprehend .
i had questions .
i i wondered what the hell was going on with kanyn . trichotillomania - compulsive or impulsive or impulsive hair-pulling - could present as an isolated symptom , but it could also be a complication for someone with the kind of severe dysthymia that amy was describing about kanyn , the public specificity was a variant i'd read about that i hadn't run across before clinically . i suspected kanyn pulled other hairs too , not just her pubes .
if cara was as goood about keeping appointment as amy suggested she was , why had she blown me off ? had wallace gotten confused about the time ? or the date ?
i cionsideed contacting wallace first to confirm i understood the plans , but after a moment's reflection i decided that leaving him in place as the intermediary between his daughter and me wasn't working well . i also figured that wallace would either be annoyed at cara for apacind out our meeting , or worried about her well-being for the same reason . i didn't see anything to be gained from aggravingting what was already a difficult situation for father and dauther .
i drove for a while , crossing under the pasadena freeway at a location that didn't have any ramps .
" the hair - pulling . it's called trichotilomania . it's a psychological ....condition ."
she looked at me as thuough i'd just made a gerbil appear from her ear ." how do you know that ?"
"'m a psychologist ," i said .
"spell it ," she said .
i did . her lips barely moved as she silently repeated the progreeion of letters . it was like watching a ventriloquist at work .
i said ," nice meeting you , amy ."
i returned to the car and dove away . the camry's instrument dispalys were telling me things about the status of its batteries that i didn't comprehend .
i had questions .
i i wondered what the hell was going on with kanyn . trichotillomania - compulsive or impulsive or impulsive hair-pulling - could present as an isolated symptom , but it could also be a complication for someone with the kind of severe dysthymia that amy was describing about kanyn , the public specificity was a variant i'd read about that i hadn't run across before clinically . i suspected kanyn pulled other hairs too , not just her pubes .
if cara was as goood about keeping appointment as amy suggested she was , why had she blown me off ? had wallace gotten confused about the time ? or the date ?
i cionsideed contacting wallace first to confirm i understood the plans , but after a moment's reflection i decided that leaving him in place as the intermediary between his daughter and me wasn't working well . i also figured that wallace would either be annoyed at cara for apacind out our meeting , or worried about her well-being for the same reason . i didn't see anything to be gained from aggravingting what was already a difficult situation for father and dauther .
i drove for a while , crossing under the pasadena freeway at a location that didn't have any ramps .
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