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Pago 17
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'Lavender Moonlight':
AMannequin Romance
April May June was so excited, she felt like cheer
leading as she threw open the double doors and
stepped out onto the hotel balcony. "I'm in South
Africa!" she screamed to nobody in particular. "I'm
really in South Africa!" she screamed again, partly
for fear that if she did not keep saying it to herself it
would not be true, but mostly so that the devoted
readers would know which far-flung and exotic
land would serve as the setting for this tale.
She looked down over the sidewalk, scanning the
Johannesburg streets for her beloved Randall She
could not pick him out of the crowd, but she knew
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that soon he would be at the hotel. He would knock
on tne aoor, and tnrow his arms around her, then
she would open the door and . . . no, wait a minute.
She thought it out again. She would have to open the
door and throw her arms around him, then he
would knock, then . . .'nah, that wasnt it either. What
the hell, she thought, they would get it right when
thetimecame.
On the sidewalk, an elderly woman with a cane
was dragging home a shopping cart full of groceries.
"Hello down there," April yelled in her unbridled
exuberance, weaving and stomping her feet and
jumping around like she expected the old lady to lob
her a biscuit for her labors.
The old woman looked up, then slowly raised her
cane to point it at April Tfou little harlot," she.
crackled in snaggle-toothed anger. "Put some clothes
on before I call the police."
immediately recognized the problem. "Musta' been
when I ran the bath," she thought aloud, and quickly
ducked into the hotel Just as she did she heard the
sound of gunfire, followed by chips of plaster splat
tering off the balcony.
"Hoohadeeyabadabbadadooba," she said, her voice
unable to make real words. Gunshots in the hotel?
Gunshots at her? Where was Randall?
As if on cue, a knock came at the door.
She froze, wondering what to do. "Who is it?" she
finally managed to say.
"White slavers," said a businesslike but friendly
voice. "Open the door or 111 blast it oft"
The gunshots, she through. It's them. What do
they want with her? Tm calling the police," she said
'stupidly.'.
"April, I'm only kidding," shouted the voice.
"Sure you are," she said, petrified at the realiza
tion that the white slavers A,vith the gun knew her
first name. Where w3 Randall?
"I Jo, it's ma, Randall," said the voice. "Please let me
in." i
" "Hcudall who?"
"Sandall your boyfriend. How many Randalls do
you know?" ,
lie had a point there. It was Randall' She threw
her arms open wide to embrace him, then remem
bered to epen the doer. He slipped into the room,
and she clunj to him 12;e a b!3 blonde amoeba
n', r.An m K"hvfpn enh "there were
v gur.shcts. At this hotel room. At me!" She buried her
Ic.ee in his chect and cried, but soon realized that she
wculdnt-be able to kzzp this up as she couldnt
"Cicts, eh?" sdd RandaUfcrather mattej-of-factly.
"Ard you're r "1 cIIts."
' ' "Yes," she'edi, with abrstete certainty.' "Who
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Ir.to th3 hctel rccm Etched April llzfs bzzt
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