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You can read it some other time.
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You sit down some place
and gaze out at the mountains.
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It's what the girl in my novel does.
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- I'll see you later.
- I'll see you. Good news!
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[Narrator] Sensibly, Grace chose to hope
for the best rather than fear the worst,
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and planned to spend the day calmly
washing her clothes and herself,
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which, for some reason or another, she was sure
none of the characters from Tom's
fictitious township would dream of doing.
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And then it was as if Dogville just waited.
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Even the wind dropped,
leaving the town in an unfamiliar calm.
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as if somebody had put a large
cheese dish cover over it,
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and created the kind of quietness
that descends while you are awaiting visitors.
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After two days off Grace had been put back
to work, but the quietness remained.
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Indeed it intensified until on the fifth day
it swelled into a strange mood
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that, all of a sudden, brought all the citizens
to the street to listen.
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They asked each other
if the phone was really still down,
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or if they'd heard about Ben having had to turn
his truck around on his way to Georgetown
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that very morning on account
of a large tree blocking the road.
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They were not worried.
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"worried" was not the right word,
and then Tom spotted the cars.
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Tom has binoculars.
But you can see 'em with the naked eyes.
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There must be at least eight!
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I thought the road was blocked.
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They must have come through
before the tree came down.