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know, I think I won't go back there again? I shouldn't. It's greedy. I should just wait for Christmas to come to me. But it's so long between Decembers..."
THERE ARE OTHER holiday isles on the Great Joy Corporation plane. Cousin Sulie has visited only Easter Island. She didn't like it much, perhaps because she had a cold coming on and was worried about her flight out of Denver to Seattle. She had, rather riskily, changed planes while actually sitting in the plane while it was sitting on the ground being de-iced for the third time in a snowstorm. "It just wasn't a very good time to travel," she said.
The cover of the brochure shows a sand dune crowned with a row of the familiar frowning monoliths of the South Sea Easter Island. My cousin seems to have missed these or ignored them. "I guess I was looking for something a little more on the sacred side?" she said. "I did enjoy the display of those Russian Emperors' eggs. The rubies and gold and all. They were pretty. But you wonder why
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