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- 2835 "Who?" she said. All she had on was jeans and about twenty sweaters. You could
2836 tell her mother made them for her, because they were lumpy as hell.
2837 "Phoebe Caulfield. She lives on Seventy-first Street. She's in the fourth grade,
2838 over at--"
2839 "You know Phoebe?"
2840 "Yeah, I'm her brother. You know where she is?"
2841 "She's in Miss Callon's class, isn't she?" the kid said.
2842 "I don't know. Yes, I think she is."
2843 "She's prob'ly in the museum, then. We went last Saturday," the kid said.
2844 "Which museum?" I asked her.
2845 She shrugged her shoulders, sort of. "I don't know," she said. "The museum."
2846 "I know, but the one where the pictures are, or the one where the Indians are?"
2847 "The one where the Indians."
2848 "Thanks a lot," I said. I got up and started to go, but then I suddenly remembered
2849 it was Sunday. "This is Sunday," I told the kid.
2850 She looked up at me. "Oh. Then she isn't."
2851 She was having a helluva time tightening her skate. She didn't have any gloves on
2852 or anything and her hands were all red and cold. I gave her a hand with it. Boy, I hadn't
2853 had a skate key in my hand for years. It didn't feel funny, though. You could put a skate
2854 key in my hand fifty years from now, in pitch dark, and I'd still know what it is. She
2855 thanked me and all when I had it tightened for her. She was a very nice, polite little kid.
2856 God, I love it when a kid's nice and polite when you tighten their skate for them or
2857 something. Most kids are. They really are. I asked her if she'd care to have a hot
2858 chocolate or something with me, but she said no, thank you. She said she had to meet her
2859 friend. Kids always have to meet their friend. That kills me.
2860 Even though it was Sunday and Phoebe wouldn't be there with her class or
2861 anything, and even though it was so damp and lousy out, I walked all the way through the
2862 park over to the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was the museum the kid with
2863 the skate key meant. I knew that whole museum routine like a book. Phoebe went to the
2864 same school I went to when I was a kid, and we used to go there all the time. We had this
2865 teacher, Miss Aigletinger, that took us there damn near every Saturday. Sometimes we
2866 looked at the animals and sometimes we looked at the stuff the Indians had made in
2867 ancient times. Pottery and straw baskets and all stuff like that. I get very happy when I
2868 think about it. Even now. I remember after we looked at all the Indian stuff, usually we
2869 went to see some movie in this big auditorium. Columbus. They were always showing
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