"You ... stay ...
with us." He pointed around the camp. "You ... stay ... this ...
place."
Their faces broke into that funny just-before-tears expression that
meant happiness with them. The man confined his vocal expressions to
his odd _ghroogh-ghroogh_-ing; the woman twittered joyfully. Gofredo
put a hand on the woman's shoulder, pointed to the man and from him
back to her. "Unh?" he inquired.
The woman put a hand on the man's head, then brought it down to
within a foot of the ground. She picked up the imaginary infant
and rocked it in her arms, then set it down and grew it up until
she had her hand on the top of the man's head again.
"That was good, Mom," Gofredo told her. "Now, you and Sonny come
along; we'll issue you equipment and find you billets." He added,
"What in blazes are we going to feed them; Extee Three?"
* * * * *
They gave them replacements for all the things that had been taken
away from them. They gave the man a one-piece suit of Marine combat
coveralls; Lillian gave the woman a lavender bathrobe, and Anna
contributed a red scarf.
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