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It had been around the tiot divorced My mom couldn't pick me up and drop me off twice a week all on her own She had a job It just didn't seem worth it anymore I was bored of it by then anyway, and Taylor wasn't doing it anyot boobs before the whole rest of the class, and in our class picture I looked like I could be the teacher It was e

I didn't answer his question Instead I said, "I was really good! I could have been dancing in a coood, not by any stretch of the i sitting there on the bed

"At least I can dance"

"Hey, I can dance," he protested

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I stared at hiet him at all One hing and twirling ," I said I backed out of the room "And can you keep your music down? You already woke up the whole house"

He s atunravel and want to fall at his feet He said, "Sure Good night, Bells" Bells, o

He made it so hard not to love him When he eet like this, I remembered why I did Used to love hi

Chapter thirty

AGE II

The summer house had a stack of CDs that we listened to, and that was prettyto the same CDs There was the Police, which Susannah put on in the ; there was Bob Dylan, which she put on in the afternoon; and there was Billie Holiday, which she put on at dinner The nights were a free-for-all It was the funniest thing Jere laundry, huster rap And then ht put on her Aretha Franklin CD, and Jere all the words, because we all knew them by that time, we'd heard it so much

My favorite music was the Motown and the beach music I would listen to it on Susannah's old Walk CD on the big stereo in the living roorabbed Jere poker with Steven and Conrad and ood at poker

At first Jere too It was called the shag, and it was a 1960s kind of beach dance I watched the, and Jere her around, and I wanted to dance too My feet positively itched to dance I did dance ballet and ood I was

"Stevie, dance withdown on the floor, on ht," he said Not that he even kne