CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-TWO (part six) “Do you feel your mother?” Camilla asked. “Um…” Valerie said. Camila’s head peeked out over Valerie’s legs. “How do you know your husband loves you?” Camila asked. “I know your husband loves you. I could see it all over him. You?” “He shows me every day,” Valerie said….
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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-TWO (part five) “Your brother thinks you don’t want to lose your mother again,” Camila said. “Is this true?” “My mother came just a couple days ago and…” Valerie’s eyes welled with tears. “She…” “I love my Mother very much too,” Camila said. “She came to me when I had my…
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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-TWO (part four) Wednesday morning — 10:15 A.M. “I think this is really best,” Valerie said holding up a short floral summer dress. She was standing in the loft that served as her second closet above Mike’s painting studio in the carriage house behind the Castle. “Good thinking,” Samantha smiled. “Just…
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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-TWO (part three) “Know what?” “Since we had Mack, Blane has been working with a mid-wife team,” Heather said. “One of them is really popular, everyone’s favorite. I don’t know if she’d have time, but she likes working with Blane. She sees mostly poor women who can’t afford to have their…
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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-TWO (part two) Heather shrugged. “Right,” Jill said. “Delphie says ‘The heart wants what the heart wants.’ I’m glad things turned out this way. I’m glad my heart wants this now.” “My heart’s really happy too,” Heather said. “And Tres?” Jill smiled. Heather blushed. “I mean, poor Tanesha,” Heather’s eyes insisted…
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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-TWO (part one) Wednesday morning — 9:45 A.M. “How did it go?” Jill hugged Heather at the side door to the Castle. “Okay, I guess,” Heather said. “Blane’s healthy, that’s what the doctor said at least. I mean, healthy enough to need a new liver.” Heather’s face flushed with despair. Jill…
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