Why does sound travel farther at night

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with Hallie were clearbecause we remembered so much for each otherI supposebut why did I not know
Mrs. Campbell in the grocery? Or Lydia Galvezwho rode our school bus and claimed to have loaned me
her handkerchief after Simon Bolivar Jones chucked me on the head with his Etch-a-Sketchon a dare. In
factI felt like the victim of a head injury. I hoped that if I struck out now on faith I would feel my way to
Doc Homer’sthe way a water witcher closes her eyes and follows her dowsing rod to find a spring. But I
didn’t know. I could have lost the homing instinct completely.
I was on a road that looked promisinganyway. I could hear the river. (Why does sound travel farther
at night?) I had my mother’s death on my mind. One of my few plain childhood memories was of that day.
I was not quite threeHallie was newbornand I’m told I couldn’t possibly remember it because I wasn’t
there. The picture I have in my mind is nonetheless clear: two men in white pants handling the stretcher
like a fragileimportant package. The helicopter blade beatingsending out currents of air across the alfalfa
field behind the hospital. This was up above the canyonin t [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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itseemedmarginally
brighter to the east.