Dex,” she said. “Are you all right?”

“I’ll be fine, Sis,” I said, feeling somewhat light-headed, “if you’ll just turn off that horrible music.

“I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in…”

“Stop the nurse like the monkey.”

“Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.”

“What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this seaso…”