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Английский язык со Стивеном Кингом. Счастливый четвертак / Stephen King. Luckey QuarterShe sat down in the chair beside the rumpled, abandoned bed with the quarter in one hand and the envelope it had fallen out of in the other, looking back and forth between them and laughing until tears spilled from her eyes and rolled down her cheeks. Patsy, her older kid, needed braces — Darlene had absolutely no idea how she was going to pay for them; she had been worried about it all week — and if this wasn't the final straw, what was? And if you couldn't laugh, what could you do? Find a gun and shoot yourself? Different girls had different places to leave the all-important envelope (у разных девушек были разные места, чтобы оставлять /там этот/ чрезвычайно важный конверт), which they called the honeypot (который они называли «горшочек для меда»; honey — мед; pot — горшок, котелок, кастрюля). Gerda, the Swede who'd been a downtown girl (шведка Герда, которая занималась проституцией в центре города; downtown — деловаячастьгорода, центргорода; girl — девочка; девушка, /разг./ молодаяженщина) before finding Jesus ...» |
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