"I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more."
"Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too."
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Source: Jim Toomey (1999). “Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection”, p.4, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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