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  1. Public Bookmark 32

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    Janey asks her about her favorite animals one afternoon.

    Lucy is slicing an orange for the fruit bowl. She scrapes pulp from her finger, trying to think. Cats or dogs?

    She should say dogs, since the Howards have one.

    “Do you like horses?” the little girl asks eagerly.

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    30 Nov 2024

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    19 Nov 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 63

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    They're both playing a game of pretend.

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    18 Nov 2024

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    —“You’ve ridden something before, haven’t you, girl? That cousin of yours, maybe?”
    —“Ridden?”
    —“A man, Vaultie. You ever put a man on his back and mount up? Ride him proper?”
    —“You mean sex with me on top? Do people really call it that? The health manuals—”
    —“Don’t need the lecture, Schoolmarm. I’m askin’ if you’ve done it.”
    —Cooper could feel her shrug against his back. “Sure. Haven’t most people?”
    —“Can’t say I know how everybody fucks, but I’ve had a share of fillies in my saddle.”
    —Lucy’s huffed breath was cooler and wetter than the desert air against his neck. “Nobody in my vault would have any idea what that means.”
    —“But you do,” said he in a low voice, “now.”

    When Coop gets a hold of what passes for a horse in the wasteland, Lucy gets a riding lesson.

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    17 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 37

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    A torch, a barrel of fire, all the brilliance of the sun itself.

    On the road to New Vegas, Lucy and Cooper discover they are so much more than the sum of their parts. And they burn, oh how they burn so bright.

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    09 Nov 2024