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PattyLoulookedoutthedoor.Shewaswaitingforhergrandson,Robert,to come. She hadn’t seen him since her ninetieth birthday party threemonths earlier, when the whole family had come out to Brookhaven, Mis-sissippi, to celebrate with her. Robert came up from New Orleans to seeher only three or four times a year, and she was looking forward to seeinghim. She looked out at the sky. There were four buzz