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forgot about the dog. He went right out of my mind.
"I feel terrible," she was saying. "Tiny never bothers anybody, but I noticed how he goes for you every day. Did he hurt you?"
"Just my pants," I said, "are you his dog? I mean is he your dog?"
What made me fluster at a moment like that? I was in the right. The dog was the aggressor. No reason for me to get tongue-tied. But if you saw this girl . . . Red-gold hair like Greer Garson, complexion like a peach sundae; and the kind of a house dress I always put on a girl when I dreamed about the ONE who would be her. If that doesn't make sense, chalk it up to the steamroller I mentioned earlier.
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\V/E STOOD facing each other for no more than one ™ minute, but that minute had all the potency of a tidal wave; I hemmed for a second, then hawed, and forgot what I started to say. She was smiling a bit, but she didn't look right at me; and I remembered that later when I was five blocks away.
"Shy, Bob," I said to myself, talking out loud. "She's shy: Gosh, it's getting warm. Did you notice those sandals she wore? Did you ever see such hair? The dog has a reason to bark, I guess. He protects her from the world, and he doesn't like my looks. Better get these pants fixed. Right now." I turned into Mrs. Williams' house and ten minutes later that good lady had repaired the damage caused by Tiny's teeth.
"Do you know some people named Welch over on Sunset Drive, Mrs. Williams?"
No, she didn't know them. That day I asked five people if they knew the Welch family, hoping somebody would tell me about the wonderful girl. No luck. But I knew I would find out all about her and her family, so I made it my business to start the next day.
As I approached Sunset Drive I began sorting the letters for that street in my hands. There it was: