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‘May I ask you a few questions?’

‘Depends’ She tried to make the word seductive She was, Beauvoir decided, the artless sort who tried to make every word seductive, and failed

‘Did you know Madeleine had had breast cancer?’ He placed the tray on the dresser, shoving a e

‘Yeah, but, I ht? She was fine’

‘Really? I thought it took five years before people were given the all clear, and it hasn’t been that long, has it?’

‘Almost She seeh for you’ Were all twenty-one-year-olds this self-absorbed? This callous? She really didn’t seem to care that a woman who’d shared her home and her life had had cancer and had just been brutally ht in front of her

‘What was it like living here after Madeleine arrived?’

‘I dunno I went away to university, didn’t I? At first Madeleinedeal when I came back, but after a while she and Moine that’s true’

‘Well it is I wasn’t even going to go to Queens I’d been accepted at McGill Moo there But Madeleine had been to Queens and she’d talked so s, the lake Sheanyone and got accepted So I decided to go to Queens’

‘Because of Madeleine?’

Sophie looked at hih her face was changing to stone And he knew then While her rief at a distance, Sophie had another battle To keep grief in

‘Did you love her?’

‘She didn’t care forfor her, everything Even changed ston Do you even knohere that is? It’s eight fucking hours’ drive away’