The Girl with a Clock for a Heart
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Read between March 21 - April 2, 2018
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She was drinking a glass of red wine and reading a paperback,
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Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman”
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she was wearing a pair of tight-fitting khaki pants and a white cotton sweater.
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New Essex was an old quarry town by the sea.
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primary reason people went to New Essex was to eat fried clams and steamers, to gaze at the rock-strewn shore, or to visit the kitschy galleries that had replaced the old fishing shacks around the harbor.
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The sky was a chalky blue, and the sea, glimpsed through gaps in the evergreens, was slack and gray.
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view of the sea was blocked by white pines.
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She wore a navy blue pencil skirt with a wide leather belt; her tucked-in blouse had small black polka dots.
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middle of nowhere in Connecticut,
Caron Staney
Go there
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Framed maps lined the wall, including one that was old and yellowed enough to have one of those sea monsters rearing out of the ocean.
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Barbados.
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The car was a vinyl-wood-paneled Buick LeSabre with a steering wheel that pulled to the left.
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book-lined and dust-free.
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black capri pants and a white sleeveless shirt with a scoop neck.
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Monday evening, which was reserved for simple dinners and imported English dramas on public television.
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how sculpted and smooth her arms were.
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a metallic gray Audi,
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She wore black capris and a sleeveless polka-dot shirt.
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Cancun.
Caron Staney
go there