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Nadia bit her lip so she wouldn’t laugh "I can try"

"Then okay Because that et a chance to try it until after school For safety’s sake, Mateo didn’t join the how to breathe They walked toward Swindoll Park, which was more or less back to normal now that the charred reed her 1950s satin bohtly around her as she sat on the steps of the bandstand Nadia stood about a dozen feet away

"Coet this show on the road It’s cold out here"

"I’o some January so you can see what real cold is," Nadia called back In truth, she was hesitating--unsure at the lasttheyour mind to precisely what you want erased, Nadia reredients summoned:

Evidence of absence

Proof of love’s existence

Proof of love’s death

She had to go for simple, precise examples of each one Brief moments that had pricked her like a knife’s point--

Half of her parents’ closet, eone

The time she’d played hide-and-seek with three-year-old Cole and si him, because she was so desperate for so so bad she’d tricked hiht as ever before they went to bed

Reading that email from her ed Monored hi that could seeht After a ?"

"I think so?" Nadia said "Do you rerade piano recital?"

Verlaine frowned "I guess I must have had one"