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@@@@@He shook it again, looking at the stump of my right arm as he did so "No prosthesis? Or do you just leave it off when you're not among the hoi polloi?" I had a story I told people about that - nervepain in the stump - but it was a lie, and I didn't want to lie to WiremanPartly because he had a nose attuned to the delicate smell of bullshit, but mostly because I just didn't want to lie to him 231 "I was measured for one while I was still in the hospital, of course, and I got the hard sell on it from just about everyone - especially my physical therapist and this psychologist friend of mine They said the quicker I learned to use it, the quicker I'd be able to get on with my life-" "Just put the whole thing behind you and go on dancing-" "Yes "Only sometimes putting a thing behind you isn't so easy to do "Sometimes it's not even right," Wireman said "That isn't it, exactly, but it's I trailed off and seesawed my hand in the air "Close enough for rock and roll?" "Yes," I said"Thanks for the cold drink "Come on back and get another oneI only take the sun between two and three - an hour a day is enough for me - but Miss Eastlake either sleeps or rearranges her china figurines most of the afternoon, and of course she never misses Oprah, so I have timeMore than I know what to do with, 232 actuallyWho knows? We might find a lot to talk about "All right," I saidHe offered his hand and I shook with him again"You know what I think? Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous "Maybe your next job will be writing the fortunes in Chinese cookies," I said "There could be worse jobs, muchacho iv Walking back, my thoughts turned to Miss Eastlake, an old lady in big blue sneakers and a wide straw hat who just happened to own (sort of) her own Florida KeyNot the Bride of the Godfather after all, but Daughter of the Land Baron and, apparently, Patroness of the ArtsMy mind had done another of those weird slip-slides and I couldn't remember her father's name (something simple, only one syllable), but I remembered the basic situation as Wireman had outlined itI'd never heard of anything similar, and when you 233 build for a living, you see all sorts of strange property arrangementsI thought it was actually rather ingenious