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You could say it was a kind of wedding gift. I guess any competent biologist could pick holes in this the size of the centre of Saturn’s rings. ”“I did not. Her grandmother stared at it in bewilderment, as if at some miraculous apparition.

”Nobody moves. * * *Miriam was standing at the other side of the Kalambo. But he never did. She didn’t tell the whole story at once, but piece by piece over days and weeks and from summer to summer.