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The sheriff didn’t waste any time in coming to hear what I had to say. Before the doctor finished the last wrap of plaster on my cast, my friend was sitting beside me, waiting. When the doctor left to mix the epoxy he was going to put on my leg to make it “sea-worthy,” I said, “I absolutely cannot tell you what I know here. Definitely not. You’ll have to wait.”
“No problem,” he said, taking his phone out of his pocket. “I just got a new Sudoku app, and I brought the cruiser today. So I can give you and your bum leg a ride home.”
I smiled and took out my own phone. This jigsaw puzzle wasn’t going to finish itself.
By the time the indigo blue epoxy was dry enough for me to risk rubbing it against a passerby and not adhering to them permanently, I was on to a new puzzle, this one an abs
