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Willem folds the letter, carefully, like it is sacred text "I am, too"

He hands the letter back to Allyson She shakes her head "I wrote it to you"

He knows exactly where he will keep it With the photo of hihteenth birthday With the photo of Saba and Saba’s sister, Willea, who, like this letter, he only recently discovered had existed This letter froht lost, now found

"I still don’t understand," Willem says "I went to the house on Bloemstraat last month and the letter wasn’t there"

"That’s weird," Allyson says "Saskia and Ana you"

"Who are they?" Willem asks

"They live there"

"Ahh Well, I didn’t meet thehs "That explains it They didn’t know you, either, though they knew of you And also" She pauses and then forces herself to finish "Ana Lucia"

"Ana Lucia?" Willeht much about her since their spectacular blowout before Christmas last year "What about Ana Lucia?"

"I met her"

"You irl’s fury Another student at Ana Lucia’s college had told Allyson that Wille When she’d heard that, it had see bad Allyson suspected about hio? Willem asks

"Well, she didn’t punch me"

Willem winces "She wasn’t so happy to see you," he says

"I didn’t get it I’d never even met her before"

"You have A bit"

Allyson shakes her head "No I think I’d remember"

"In Paris In the Latin Quarter"

Allyson’s mind spins and lands on the carousel of postcards that she had pretended to look at while Willeirls he’d known from home Ana Lucia was one of them?

"But ould she hate irl Wille Ana Lucia had literally thrown Allyson out of her dor the airplane tickets to find you"

Airplane tickets? Find me where? Allyson mind scrambles to incorporate this new inforone to Spain toon Ana Lucia with Allyson had suspected it was Céline, even though Céline had told Allyson she had not seen Willem since the day he ith Allyson in Paris At the time, Allyson had believed her

And just like that, Allyson understands it How jealousy contorts things She thinks of Céline, how jealous she had been of her, and horong about her She was Ana Lucia’s Céline

There was no French girl There was an Ao to Spain?" Allyson asks