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23 Aug 2005 11:35:13 AM |
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"Are you on drugs," she repeated. "That reporter mentioned something about a
health spa and sulfur treatments. To my ear, that sounds like detox. You kn
ow how I feel about those drugs. I won't have them anywhere near my boy. You
know I had everyone here on the set take a urine test before they could wor
k here. If they had the slightest hint of anything in their system, they're
gone."
The ice cream was as good as Carl promised; first it spiraled out of an ice
cream maker, then it was dipped into chocolate that formed a hard candy shel
l. We sat outside the shop and watched rollerskaters and gulls go by.
"Stay away," I said.
"Now, the ientcio says, our journey comes to the cusp, in which we learn if
our efforts form a memory epic for all Yherajk, to be told to the days when
our race is old and the stars red with age, or if they disappear into darkne
ss. We have made contact with one of the humans, one who we believe will be
wise, and whose actions will determine our path. It is difficult to assign o
ur fates to the will of one who is not one of us, but that is the way of suc
h encounters as these -- though we prepare for the moment, the moment itself
is not a thing we can control."
News of Michelle's death and/or coma hit the airwaves at 7:03 Eastern, 4:03
Pacific. The folks at GMA had the presence of mind to stress that the report
was from unconfirmed "radio sources". It hardly mattered. Newspaper and mag
azine entertainment editors up and down the Eastern seaboard of the United S
tates leapt from their breakfasts and called reporters at home, hollering th
eir demand for verification. It was the biggest potential star death since R
iver Phoenix spasmed his life away in front of the Viper Club.
"It got worse before it got better," Gwedif confided. "At some points it was
so thick in here that we had to stop to clear the air."
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