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Sally and Billy decided to keep heading in the direction they were going. They decided against stealing a car. They decided on hitchhiking. It took less than a minute to get a ride. A hairy looking guy in a pickup truck travelling north on interstate 93 on his way to Missoula. Frank Zappa was singing, Going to Montana soon, going to be a dental floss tycoon. The driver turned it down enough to talk.
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... “Now best we get you on your way. Someone might be looking for those chips.”
So the cat went casually on its way and the people climbed back into Jimmy’s pickup truck and headed toward the station.

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Artemis was half paying attention to the gramophone. She didn’t bother with it so often but her grandfather was pretty happy with his 63 records. All from a time before Artemis was part of the world.
“You think you’re so clever and classless and free, but you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see.” ...
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... Artemis understood what her grandfather was telling her. Life on the farm was not representative of much of the rest of the world. Artemis decided she wanted to kill a turkey.

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Sally and Billy still had no real idea where they were going. Jimmy had taken them to the Bus Station, gave them some cash and told them they should be all right as long as they got to somewhere else and blended in.
Truth was, he didn’t know. He didn’t want the authorities seeing him with a couple fugitives and thought it was time to cut out of their adventure while he still could. ...
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... Neither she nor Billy noticed an obvious out of place unmarked car with darkened windows coming from the south into town as their bus was leaving. It wouldn’t have changed anything, knowing. It was better to think of the cat in a dry storm sewer. Believing the chips were tracking devices gave the two fugitives hope.

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Sally, now that she was sitting in a bus with little to do, was aware of her body. She touched her tit for a minute to wonder about it. A bit sore. It felt real. Just not like hers. She was still holding her tit, trying to understand it and feel familiar with it when she thought about something she heard from adults among other adults. Puberty is hell. If that was true, she had her hell years cut out of her life. She smiled. That would be something Billy might think up. ...
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... Sally and Billy stole some rope and a big tarp. That would be enough until they got to Canada. There were berries in the woods. They could find a way to catch fish.

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“Are you having fun, Billy.”
“I was just wondering how to make a small dwelling before the winter.”
“I’m a grown up, Billy. I can get a job as a waitress.”
“You could get a job as a model. They make better money.”
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... “Okay, it’s a nice story. I still don’t see it.”
“Come Sally, use your imagination.”
“Okay, Billy. I’ll imagine.”

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They were less than a mile from the Canadian boarder, a bit more than a kilometer if they had been over the boarder. Sally and Billy didn’t care about miles or kilometers. They were focused on that boarder in the woods they were so certain had to bust out into a cut open space any time soon. ...
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... “Let me do the talking, okay.”
Sally tried to punch him. But she couldn’t move.

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After two years of the company training camp, Sally was walking along the beach in her one-piece bathing suit still dripping from a long swim wondering why she was itching to pound someone. ...
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... It was in the nature of the beast. The world trend was toward less killing but the company needed a few specialists who were very good at it.

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