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sleepiness seemed to have gone with the clouds。 I was wide awake; and I could smell Delacroix on me。 I thought I might smell him on my skin … barbecue; me and you; stinky; pinky; phew…phew…phew … for a long time to e。
Janice was waiting up; as she always did on execution nights。 I meant not to tell her the story; saw no sense in harrowing her with it; but she got a clear look at my face as I came in the kitchen door and would have it all。 So I sat down; took her warm hands in my cold ones (the heater in my old Ford barely worked; and the weather had turned a hundred and eighty degrees since the storm); and told her what she thought she wanted to hear。 About halfway through I broke down crying; which I hadn't expected。 I was a little ashamed; but only a little; it was her; you see; and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be 。。。 the way I thought I should be; at any rate。 A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures; and one without must be among the most miserable; I think; the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are。 I cried; and she held my head against her breast; and when my own storm passed; I felt better 。。。 a little; anyway。 And I believe that was when I had the first conscious sight of my idea。 Not the shoe; I don't mean that。 The shoe was related; but different。 All my real idea was right then; however; was an odd realization: that John Coffey and Melinda Moores