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You think I don't know it? Didn't say that, he said. Flatus, he intones, as if he's offering me amedical benediction. There were so manythings that she and I could talk about and so many things that we wereavoiding. He'd been to tell Gideon when I arrived for one ofour sessions.

I'm sorry. ? That would take too much effort. That's what he calls them by theway, Eric, lines of character. Perhaps she believed she needed to tell him why she'dleft Richard and Gideon.