Larch had seen it, too. 'Well, here, yes,' Larch said. For Christmas Eve everyone was together. 'They even pray on the bloody radio.
But the real reason it was a bad idea (everyone felt) for Homer to learn to swim in the Worthingtons' wnheated pool was that the cool water might be a shock to his heart. Larch was an authority. 'Oh God, you don't have to say anything—please don't even think about it!' 'My heart,' he said. Homer Wells—nurses' aide and orchardman—was mowing in the rows between the trees when the news came to him.
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