“Am I the only one you ever met?” he asked. Hallorann laughed and shook his head. “No, child, no. But you shine the hardest.” “Are there lots, then?” “No,” Hallorann said, “but you do run across them. A lot of folks, they got a little bit of shine to them. They don’t even know it. But they always seem to show up with flowers when their wives are feelin blue with the monthlies, they do good on school tests they don’t even study for, they got a good idea how people are feelin as soon as they walk into a room. I come across fifty or sixty like that. But maybe only a dozen, countin my gram, that
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