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“Suzze?”

She stopped Their eyes met

“Tell me,” he said

“You remember e first met?”

Myron nodded He was just a fewfirm Back then, at the inception, MB Reps had been known as MB SportsReps That was because initially Myron represented only athletes When he started representing actors and writers and others in the field of the arts and celebrity, he dropped the Sports froo, MB Reps

Again with the literal

“Of course,” he said

“I was a mess, wasn’t I?”

“You were a great tennis talent”

“And a arcoat it”

Myron put his palhteen”

“Seventeen”

“Seventeen, whatever” Quick memory flash of Suzze in the sun: blond hair in a ponytail, a wicked grin on her face, her forehand whipping the ball as though it had offended her “You’d just turned pro Adolescent boys hung your poster in their bedrooht away Your parents redefined pushy It’s a ht”

“Good point”

“So what’s wrong?”

Suzze glanced down at her belly as though it had just appeared “I’nant”

“Uh, yeah, I can see that”

“Life is good, you know?” Her voice was soft noistful “After all the years, when I was a messI found Lex His reat And, well, it’s just all so good now”

Myron waited Her eyes stayed on her belly, cradling it as though it were its contents, which, Myron sur, Myron asked, “Do you like being pregnant?”

“The actual physical act of carrying a child?”

“Yes”

She shrugged “It’s not like I’ or any of that I h Sonant”

“And you don’t?”

“It feels like someone parked a bulldozer on nant is because it makes theo through life without the attention, but when they’re pregnant, people nant women like the applause Do you knohat I mean?”