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George was telling Ki how he had shot it out with Rolfe Nedeau andthe Real Bad Gang on Lisbon Street in 1993. A sadness. Roughly two dozen people from the shopping center clustered around theaccident; another four dozen or so came running over from StrawfordPark, where a baseball game had been going on. But if I started talking, where would itstop? And how much could she be expected to believe? .

I believe that even make-believe murdersshould be taken seriously; maybe that's another idea I got last summer. Brenda Meserve had done agood job--a humane job-of removing these signs and signals, but shecouldn't get them all. Rogette hadother plans for Kyra. Daugh-ter never remembered what happened except that she was wanting a gun and punching into the policeman's big red face and against the buttons and the thick heavy cloth of his overcoat.