she laughed and i shifted back over to henry , and he sang to me for a moment as i played close . sorry , he told me , squeezing past me as he came in . `` where are you going to put it ? '' i would need at least a thirty-minute shower before going to bed tonight . you 'd think it 'd go away for good after so many years , but the nightmare always comes back in times of trouble , like a reminder . not a trace remained where it had been . 