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"
I
believe
it
’
s
because
Tony
has
outlived
his
usefulness
,
"
Edmonds
said
.
"
He
was
born
-
Tony
,
not
Danny
-
at
a
time
when
you
and
your
husband
were
straining
to
keep
your
marriage
together
.
Your
husband
was
drinking
too
much
.
There
was
the
incident
of
the
broken
arm
.
The
ominous
quiet
between
you
.
"
Ominous
quiet
,
yes
,
that
phrase
was
the
real
thing
,
anyway
.
The
stiff
,
tense
meals
where
the
only
conversation
had
been
please
pass
the
butter
or
Danny
,
eat
the
rest
of
your
carrots
or
may
I
be
excused
,
please
.
The
nights
when
Jack
was
gone
and
she
had
lain
down
,
dry
-
eyed
,
on
the
couch
while
Danny
watched
TV
.
The
mornings
when
she
and
Jack
had
stalked
around
each
other
like
two
angry
cats
with
a
quivering
,
frightened
mouse
between
them
.
It
all
rang
true
;
(
dear
God
,
do
old
scars
ever
stop
hurting
?
)
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horribly
,
horribly
true
.
Edmonds
resumed
,
"
But
things
have
changed
.
You
know
,
schizoid
behavior
is
a
pretty
common
thing
in
children
.
It
’
s
accepted
,
because
all
we
adults
have
this
unspoken
agreement
that
children
are
lunatics
.
They
have
invisible
friends
.
They
may
go
and
sit
in
the
closet
when
they
’
re
depressed
,
withdrawing
from
the
world
.
They
attach
talismanic
importance
to
a
special
blanket
,
or
a
teddy
bear
,
or
a
stuffed
tiger
.
They
suck
their
thumbs
.
When
an
adult
sees
things
that
aren
’
t
there
,
we
consider
him
ready
for
the
rubber
room
.
When
a
child
says
he
’
s
seen
a
troll
in
his
bedroom
or
a
vampire
outside
the
window
,
we
simply
smile
indulgently
.
We
have
a
one
-
sentence
explanation
that
explains
the
whole
range
of
such
phenomena
in
children
-
"
"
He
’
ll
grow
out
of
it
,
"
Jack
said
.
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Edmonds
blinked
.
"
My
very
words
,
"
he
said
.
"
Yes
.
Now
I
would
guess
that
Danny
was
in
a
pretty
good
position
to
develop
a
full
-
fledged
psychosis
.
Unhappy
home
life
,
a
big
imagination
,
the
invisible
friend
who
was
so
real
to
him
that
he
nearly
became
real
to
you
.
Instead
of
'
growing
out
of
’
is
childhood
schizophrenia
,
he
might
well
have
grown
into
it
.
"
"
And
become
autistic
?
"
Wendy
asked
.
She
had
read
about
autism
.
The
word
itself
frightened
her
;
it
sounded
like
dread
and
white
silence
.
"
Possible
but
not
necessarily
.
He
might
simply
have
entered
Tony
’
s
world
someday
and
never
come
back
to
what
he
calls
'
real
things
.
’
"