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"Good?" I was surprised by her reaction "You don’t want the your brother?"

"Oh, I don’t know I kinda feel sorry for her I’ve known Merodie a lot of years, going way back before she even met my brother The sweetest woman you’d ever want to know Kind Generous to a fault When I was going through my divorce--I was married for about a week to a loser naht irl never seems to catch a break, especially with men She’s just the nicest person, too"

"Nicest person? The cops think she killed your brother"

"Yeah, but it’s not like he didn’t deserve it"

That stopped me

Vonnie Lou took two more steps and pivoted on the asphalt towardon her," she said "Didn’t you know that?"

"No"

"Merodie didn’t tell you?"

I shook my head

"Huh I figured she would"

"Did you tell the police?"

"Tell the police what?"

"That Eli was cheating on Merodie"

"No"

"Why not?"

"For one thing, they didn’t ask For another, I don’t want to get Merodie into trouble"

"Will you talk toto help her, right?"

"Right"