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I got his voice mail.
It came on so fast, I didn’t have time to react. I just started babbling.
“Hi . . . Dr. Whitfield. Um, you don’t know me, but my name is Audie Masters and I’m a high school senior in Tucson, Arizona.” (My mother’s name is . . . my favorite color is . . . get on with it, Audie!)
“Um, so the reason I’m calling is I read your Above and Beyond book—I mean, the Preface so far, which I really love, but I guess why I’m really calling is . . .”
Just get it over with. If he thinks I’m a freak, he thinks it.
So I spat it out really fast. “You know that part of Professor Hawkins’s new book where he talks about the lunch he had with you? I think it’s on page 236 or something. And he said you had a theory about vibrations and how to travel over to another universe.
“Well
