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a strong person. Yet she would need great strength for what lay ahead. Time to go. Time to do what must be done. She could not get up from the chair. Do what must be done. She was too scared to move. Chapter 24 EDOM AND THE PIES, into the blue morning following the storm, had a schedule to keep and the hungry to satisfy. He drove his yellow-and-white 1955 Ford Country Squire station wagon. He’d bought the car with some of the last money he
earned in the years when he had been able to hold a job, before his problem. Once, he had been a superb driver. For the past decade, his performance behind the wheel depended on his mood. Sometimes, just the thought of getting in the car and venturing into the dangerous world was intolerable. Then he settled into
his La-Boy and waited for the natural disaster that would soon scrub him off the earth as though he had never existed. This morning, only his love for his sister, Agnes, gave him the courage to drive and to become the pie man. Agnes big brother by six years, Edom had lived in one of the two apartments above the large detached garage, behind the
main house, since he was twenty-five, when heed left the working world. He was now thirty-six. Edam’s twin, Jacob, who had never held a job, lived in the second apartment. He’d been there since graduating from high
school. Agnes, who inherited the property, would have welcomed her brothers in the main house. Although both were willing to
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ominous place. Too much had happened in those rooms. They were stained dark with family history, and in the night, when either Edom or
Jacob slept under that gabled roof, the past came alive again in dreams. Edom marveled at Agnes ability to rise above the past and to transcend so many years of torment. She was able to see the
house as simple shelter, whereas to her brothers, it was-and always would be-the place in which their spirits had been shattered.
Even living within sight of it would have been out of the question if they had been employed, with options. This was one of many things about Agnes that amazed Edom. If he had dared to make a list of all the qualities that he
admired in her, he would have sunk into despair at the consideration of how much better she had coped with adversity than
either he or Jacob. When Agnes had asked him to deliver the pies, before she had set out with Joey for the hospital the previous day, Edom had
wanted to beg off, but he had agreed without hesitation. He was prepared to suffer every viciousness that nature could throw at
him in this life, but he could not endure seeing disappointment in his sisters eyes. Not that she ever gave any indication that her brothers were other than a source of pride for her. She treated them always
with respect, tenderness, and love-as if unaware of their shortcomings. She dealt with them equally, too, favoring neither-except in-the matter of pie delivery. On those rare occasions when she
could not make these rounds herself and when she had no one to turn to but a brother, Agnes always asked for Edams help. Jacob scared people. He was Edam’s identical twin, with Edams boyish and pleasant face, as soft-spoken as Edom, well
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