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Chapter 66

“Where are you living now, Nate?” Rick said.

“Jacksonville. You?”

“I have an apartment up in Sanford, but my roommate’s straight.”

“That can’t be much fun.”

“No, but it provides me with a certain amount of protective coloration.”

“You’re not out, then?”

“No way—at least not yet. Maybe when I finish college and I can move far away from here, but not now.”

“I don’t know what to say.”

“Nothing to say. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. FBI been to see you?”

“Yeah. I guess that means they’ve talked to you too.”

“You bet. I think they’re gonna nail a huge chunk of that preacher’s hide to the wall on behalf of all the kids he reprogrammed.”

“Yeah.”

“That iswhat happened to you, isn’t it?”

“They grabbed me in the parking lot of the Florida Mall,” Nate said, “but I got rescued before the really bad stuff began.”

“Rescued?”

“Yeah, by Quentin.”