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He said that your great-grandfather and his great-grandfatherworked the same camps and were neighbors when they weren't in thewoods--I think he said not far from where Boyd's Marina is now. Fora moment I thought she was going to put her arms around me and hug me, athank-you gesture that might have led anywhere in our current mood--oneso heightened it was almost melodramatic. Good Humor Man was just an act--John hadreally called to ask what, if anything, was going on between me andMattie. Jim took Charley fish-ing one Sunday up the Sheyenne and told him that if he came down to the Twin Cities when schoo

War of the Titans? Hardly. Linc Steffens talked the cooperative commonwealth. It was possible she'd told me these thingsand I hadn't registered a word of what she was saying. He'swatching me.