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GOTAMA RETURNS
Miss Buddha
Chapter Sixteen — Pasadena
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“I’m going to be in a book,” said Melissa once she judged she could wrestle his attention away from the television long enough to actually have a conversation.
“What?” said Charles.
“A book.”
“What book?”
“Mr. Wolf,” she said.
Charles didn’t seem to understand, or remember.
“The man who came to see me,” she added.
“Ah. Ananda Wolf,” he accurately remembered and then declared, for he did meet the lawyer requirement of a good and precise memory for names.
“Yes,” she said.” That’s his name. A little odd.”
“A little weird,” said Charles. “I thought he said Amanda.”
“Yes, so did I,” said Melissa. “But it’s Ananda,” stressing it: An-anda.
“What did he want?” asked Charles, while also now working the remote control, changing the set to display the schedule of other college games.
“He is writing a book about first-time mothers.”
Charles stopped fiddling with the remote to look over at Melissa. All alert now. “How does he know you are…
