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-58Nesting About her she has gathered pillows and blankets, arranging them just so, then peopled her nest with dolls, those with anatomies quite far from correct, glittering eyes of glass, flesh very unlike her own, some merely limp or plump, dimpled and dappled pieces of cloth with dull fabric eyes and skin, no fingers or toes. It seems to make no difference to her as she places them about her in the ring, tucking each one in for the night, the one with the rocking blue eyes shining in their sockets, the one with round black patches where eyes should be. "Keep well," she tells them, crawling into bed, to dream whatever she will dream in that lovely haunted head. ...

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