“Did she say anything? What scared her so badly?” He was gripping the phone white-knuckled now. Silence from Irwin Goldman’s end—a long silence. This time Louis did not interrupt, much as he would have liked to. “That was what scared Dory so badly,” Irwin said finally. “She babbled a lot before she got… before she was crying too hard to understand. Dory herself was almost… you know.” “What did she say?” “She said Oz the Great and Terrible had killed her mother. Only she didn’t say it that way. She said… she said ‘Oz the Gweat and Tewwible,’ which was the way our other daughter always used to
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