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Date Posted: Fri, October 06 2023, 19:50:18
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Saturday, October 7, 2023

The following quotation is from An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2009. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 72 The Feast Of All Saints


“Anyway, aye, I was literally on fire. My shirt was in flames. Here - “ He unzipped his wind-cheater and fumbled with the buttons of Roger’s blue cambric shirt, pulling the edges apart to show her the sprawling reddish mark of a healing burn on his chest. He would have buttoned it again at once, but she motioned him not to and bent to look closer. It seemed to be centered on his heart. Was that significant? She wondered.

“Thank you,” she said, straightening up. “What - what were you thinking about when you went through?”

He stared at her.

“I was thinking I wanted to get back, what else?”

“Yes, of course. But were you thinking of someone in particular? Of Morag, I mean, or your Jem?”

The most extraordinary expression - shame? embarrassment? - crossed his face, and he looked away.

“I was,” he said briefly, and she knew he lied but couldn’t think why.

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[> And I can’t remember why he lied or what he was thinking of? -- Kathy in PA, Sat, October 07 2023, 2:35:15


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[> [> I'm someone else knows. -- kgp, Sat, October 07 2023, 12:09:17


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[> [> [> Hoping someone else knows. -- kgp, Sat, October 07 2023, 16:31:39


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[> [> [> [> I believe he was thinking of his mother, Gellis -- Margaret, Mon, October 09 2023, 2:06:50


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