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'It means that Wally can have a normal sex life,' said Homer Wells, who didn't know about Wally's epididymis. 'The _what?'_ Wally said. ' 'Right. 'And maggots,' Nurse Edna added.

s shut off for the night—when all the lights went out with a blink, what did the men on the roof have to say about _that?_ he wondered. sence; Ray went through a few minutes of struggling to be overly polite before he relaxed and talked shop with Olive. He drove the pickup through the muddy lane that divided the orchard called Frying Pan, because it was in a valley, anc was the hottest to work in, from the orchard called Doris, after someone's wife. Homer Wells—nurses' aide and orchardman—was mowing in the rows between the trees when the news came to him.