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How, he wondered, could that love have put him here, empty beer can in his hand, a hole in his heart?
“The new governor is dumb as a box of rocks,” Virgil said. “And that’s an insult to rocks and boxes.”
Virgil thought about the unfairness of personal appearance.
Pretty people, Virgil believed, both male and female, had a totally unwarranted, unearned lifelong advantage over average and ugly people. The advantage began in their earliest years—What a pretty baby!—and persisted for most of their lives. Quite often, they didn’t believe in their advantage. Oh, they knew they were pretty, but they took it as their God-given right rather than an unearned gift.
Gina Hemming had also been a pretty woman and well-off since birth. Both Johnson and Clarice had described her as haughty, better than thou, assuming appearance, brains, and money not only as her righteous heritage but as weapons to be used.
“If somebody blew his brains out, it’d take him two weeks to notice.”
is, I talk to God before I go to sleep at night. Talking about it, and thinking that maybe there’s somebody on the other end, seems to help.”
“I’m not talking about religion. I’m talking about God,”
