Rose said, 'It's a good thing I didn't eat much today. 'I guess I'd just like to see him, and tell him that I was really fucked up by his going off and leaving me there—when I thought I was the one who should be going, instead of him. Homer's room down the hall had been the master bedroom; it had been Olive's room and the room where Senior had died. Eames was a proper _Portlander_ of good reputation who occasionally was obliged to sell herself in _Boston so_ that she might afford to keep up her appearances in Portland.
But if she was angry with Wally, she was also loyal; she was keeping her promise, about the waiting and seeing. 'Right,' said Homer Wells. 'Homer Wells thinks it's killing someone,' Nurse Caroline repeated. Wally, of course, had taught Homer the correct pronunciation—it being one of the few Burmese things that Wally had ever heard correctly, although he'd never learned what it meant.
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