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She chuffed nearly soundless laughter and thrust the empty tun into his arms almost hard enough to knock him on his ass. usan pouring the coffee, Olive passing the cake, both of them gracefully accepting compliments on food and drink they’d had no hand in preparing. Of course it was true, and he hadn’t needed any such titmonkey as Will Dearborn to tell him . The lyrics from “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” by Dave Williams and Sonny David, copyright © 1957.

”Cuthbert’s eyes were red and irritated from the sand, as if he had been crying. “Couldn’t have been Cort—you’re too old. sity as they pumped their hips, but until Coral he’d never been with a woman that sparked such a powerfully harmonic chord in himself. When she reached her niece, she slid the scissors into a loop on her belt (almost reluctantly, it seemed to the niece herself) and parted the veil on her face.