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  The lace curtains napped and one of the sisters, perhaps the one who’d waved to him before and touched his cheek, smiled at him. Hellboy nodded, then turned away, alone again, and walked back down the road. Soon a pickup heading north stopped on the side of the road and he climbed in back. The rain started to come down again but he didn’t mind as he sat there alone with his thoughts, humming quietly to himself.