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And it was getting too cold simply to drive to the beach and park there. Larch didn't know; he wouldn't venture a guess. If he had been named by this dull, love-struck nurse, he probably would have been a Larch or a Wilbur of one kind or another; and a John, a Jack, or a Robert—to make matters even duller. 'You set foot in the ocean, or fall in, you'll have enough sense never to set foot in it again—it's too cold!' Homer

BABY BOY/STOP LOVE HOMER 'You're kind of young to adopt somebody, ain't you?' the stationmaster asked. ld hear about boy orphans—and so he assigned Homer the task of reading aloud to the girls' division from _Jane Eyre. That was what he was doing—bell-ringing— when his fourth foster family arrived at St. In the interval between her last and what Homer knew would be her next convulsion, he asked Nurse Edna to t