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Moments later, after insisting that Marcelene take time to review every detail she’d told the sheriff and try to remember if there were any pertinent facts that she may have omitted, I slid into my Jeep. Tired beyond belief and feeling emotionally drawn and quartered, my mind whirled in different directions like a monsoon wind. Why, even though I’d vowed to myself and to Tally that I would work on my weak points, did it not seem possible for me to quit making these impulsive decisions that consistently got me into trouble? Why hadn’t I kept my big mouth shut? You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, but no, I had to go and get myself mired in yet another impossible bind. What I should have done was kick my own a*s with the pointed toe of my boot. What was that old
