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Verlaine just kept looking down at her podcast equipment; apparently the phone app was just for backup "Is his body dead or alive? Like, after a couple of weeks, will he get sort of--zombie-esque?"
"I don’t know But I doubt it" Nadia watched the way the Prasads kept talking to the thing they thought was their son She was repulsed to see the evident love hispoured out to a de her child’s corpse to do Elizabeth’s bidding "It’s sick It’s wrong I can’t even stand it"
"Uh-oh--that sounds bad," said Faye Walsh as she took her seat a few chairs down in the front row; she was chic as ever in a white trench coat and large hoop earrings Nadia realized she must have looked stricken, because Ms Walsh held up her hands "Sorry Didn’t mean to eavesdrop"
Which was probably the truth But Faye Walsh was one of those guidance counselors who expected to actually counsel, anted you to pour out your soul before you took the college brochures She was already "concerned" about Nadia because of Mo Nadia wanted to do was attract evento pry, she was sitting so close that there was no way she couldn’t hear
Flustered, Verlaine said, "I, uh, as that? Sorry AV equipled, with the cords, and then I lose track of things" Her eyes widened as if to say, Sorry that wasn’t s Nadia had to worry about, was even one of the she could say that would sound like a completely ordinary proble about dating again"
"E" Verlaine wrinkled her nose "Really?"
"Yeah, really Well, maybe really Apparently an old friend of his in New York--female friend--tried to ask hi happened, but still, heabout it"
"Even if he’s not, they’ll be after hi "Every single, divorced, or oes of twenty-five and fifty probably already has hiure out the line between ‘too soon’ and ‘too late’"
"But why? There have to be other singlehow small Captive’s Sound is And second, your dad’s hot"
Nadia ross, Verlaine"
"I don’t mean hot hot Ioff points on her fingers "He hasn’t gotten fat, he still has his hair, he has a job, and it seeets dressed in theAfter forty, that’s all hot is"