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[Feb. 13th, 2010|03:56 am] |
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Both lights on the answering machine next to the
living room phone were blinking: the one
indicating that I had messages and the one
indicating that the tape for recording messages
was fullBut the number in the MESSAGES WAITING
window was only 1I considered this with
foreboding while the weight with my headache
inside it slid a little closer to the front of my
skullThe only two people I could think of who
might call and leave a message so long it would
use up the whole tape were Pam and Ilse, and in
neither case would hitting PLAY MESSAGES be apt to
bring me good newsIt doesn't take five minutes
of recording-time to say Everything's fine, call
when you get a chance
Leave it until tomorrow, I thought, and a craven
voice I hadn't even known was in my |
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