from page 81

the days above freezing have melted quite alot of the snow. 

the ground is still too frozen to absorb it, so we are in mud.

thus i looked carefully before stepping out of the car.

the truck-stop parking lot was full as usual. 

my eye was drawn to a small bright blue button there on the ground between the passenger side of our car and the driver's side of a large SUV. 

something in my Nature urged me to pick it up, but my Nurture talked me out of it.

i put my boot down in the wetness, then noticed another button.
once made aware of them, i saw 3 more.

five small bright blue buttons in the mud. 

it was like finding a scrap torn from a book (page 81) that said only "...she realized when all five blue buttons had fallen into the mud, someone might see them there and  ..."