1:51:26
"We won't bury her on the island.
1:51:29
She made me promise.
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She whispered it, and she hissed it...
1:51:36
...in my ear one night when she laid
hard beside me in bed.
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'Promise me.'
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She wouldn't listen to anything else.
1:51:48
We had come back from
looking for deer, Papa and me.
1:51:52
Signs at the salt lick,
but nothing to shoot at.
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I was putting his rifle back
where he hid it in the shed roof...
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...when I heard him cry out.
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He wouldn't....
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He wouldn't let me in at first...
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...though I hollered
and struck at the door.
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He opened up...
1:52:19
...when he'd got her down
on the table...
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...but...
1:52:25
...l still saw the black mark
around her neck...
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...where the cord was.
1:52:32
The fire had gone out...
1:52:35
...so our breath was showing,
Papa and me.
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White long sighs of grief.
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And her mouth open...
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...and hair crispy to the touch.
1:52:53
We wrapped her in her afghan...
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...and then l...
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...l got the fire going
while Papa just sat.