"Everyday I stopped at a different spot for an hour to eat the sack lunch Brenda fixed me and stretch, and I noticed the woods a lot more than I did before I met Becky. I saw it all, maybe cared about it a little more. I listened to the wind high up in the lodge poles, watched the birds moving in from down south, and felt some sunlight."
	"We ate and talked about other things, like where the basketball team would play their games and school and plans after graduation."
"The first thing I did in the way of making amends for my outburst at the funeral was stop by the parsonage on my way home to apologize to Reverend Miller for opening my big mouth in church,"
	"Boomer was practicing his kicking over near the sideline with his back to Salmon River. He wouldn't look at them. I looked over at Carter and saw him standing with his helmet off, just watching Washington. And he was smiling."