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poisons them with an arrogance thatprevents their perceiving how vile they are to the rest of us, how embarrassing th why,he’d go into the empty lot behind our houses and make a fort, dig it right out of the ground, and play inthere all day with his toy guns. Davey had learned todistinguish between questions like, “Where did you put your bedroom slippers?” and “Isn’t this a lov It filled the palm of his littlehand.