there is no argument coming , though i can see why you would think so . `` i liked being somebody to people i thought were important . she wiped the moisture from her upper lip and wondered when she had ever been so happy . 'they were in homeland , were n't they ? ' he tore up strips of old , worn linen and wrapped my knuckles with them , tying them off in my palm . when have ah not been there for my favorite niece when she needs me ? 