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They walked me over to Marigold Street and, as we came up on a little house with yellowshutters and a white picket fence, Lew said, “ This’ s Ira’ s house. I checked the membership roster of The Collection and found that Mr. I’ll hear from SEG about it. ” He stared at me.

“ Perhaps you had to be there,” he said,shrugging. His name was Teddy. But when my mother got around to telling me my father had done time in prison, in some strangeand perverted way I started to realize I’d been searching for “Doc” Ellison almost all my life. I’ ve been keeping watch,650 THE ESSENTIAL ELLISONand they haven’ t tried to come out after us.