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            'Oh, it's too sad to think of poor Lynelle,' Aunt Queen said, as if she were reading my mind or my wandering eyes. She was reading her paperbackThe Old Curiosity Shop , which I had given her on the plane, and she said to me:             'Quinn, Dickens is a madman.             Over the years, she has done the room in many different colors, including bed hangings, draperies and chairs, and as for her clothes, she has done the same thing. But she was gone and dead, and blood came up.

            The following day, Thursday, was another quiet one, an in-between day, and the panic started in on me, and             'Of course not,' I said. ’             'Well something stands up straight in those circumstances,' said Aunt Queen. ' Then I turned over and looked around the room.