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Joe suddenly got to feeling dis-gusted and sleepy. They don't have to know --I jerked my thumb over my shoulderat the Altima-- and Mattie doesn't have to know. It was as if he had only been waiting to betold. I understand that what you smelled--the putres-cence-wasn'tthere in any physical sense.