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Lenz demaps animals

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Glynn had thin hair and an invariant three-day growth of gray stubble and diverticulitis that made him stoop somewhat over, and remaining physique-type issues from a load of bricks falling on his head from a Workers Comp scam gone rye that included crossed eyes that Lenz overheard the veiled girl Joe L. tell Clenette Henderson and Didi Neaves the man was so cross-eyed he could stand in the middle of the week and see both Sundays.

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Joelle, days into residency, already just "the veiled girl Joe L." in house shorthand — the veil functioning exactly as U.H.I.D. promises, letting her be present, hidden, and quotable all at once, delivering cornpone wit from behind it. ("[G]one rye" is Lenz's idiom, sic.)

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