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...Mr. Harvey would later say these words to my mother when he ran into her on the street: "I heard about the horrible, horrible tragedy. What was your daughter's name, again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...Mr. Harvey told her the usual: "I hope they get the bastard. I'm sorry for your loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...Mr. Harvey said it would only take a minute, so I followed him a little farther into the cornfield, where fewer stalks were broken off because no one used it as a shortcut to the junior high. My mom had told my baby brother, Buckley, that the corn in the field was inedible when he asked why no one from the neighborhood ate it. "The corn is for horses, not humans," she said. "Not dogs?" Buckley asked. "No," my mother answered. "Not dinosaurs?" Buckley asked. And it went like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...made a little hiding place," said Mr. Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...anything," I said. I was aware that Mr. Harvey was looking at me strangely. I'd had older men look at me that way since I'd lost my baby fat, but they usually didn't lose their marbles over me when I was wearing my royal blue parka and yellow elephant bell-bottoms. His glasses were small and round with gold frames, and his eyes looked out over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

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