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"You’re wrong" Her voice was fir, and repeated, "You’re wrong Dr Wynne wasn’t kidding when he said that whoever’s behind this would have been able to get aith everything if you’d been the one who died You know that, right? I would have believed Tate when he started ranting about hoas behind everything, just hier for a black and white solution, for a villain I didn’t have to feel any conflict about… I would have believed him"

"I believed him," I whispered

"Not all the way If you’d believed him all the way--if you’d believed him the way I would have believed him--you would have done e both knoould have done You would have written your reports, held one home, and killed yourself" She s in our field kit before blowing the top of your head off You never were one for leaving things to chance"

"What would you have done?"

"Slit my wrists in the bathtub," she said matter-of-factly "Even if I amplified before I bled out, the bathroom security sensors would never have let me out into the house I would have been bleached to death The Masons would have had to pay if they wanted to clear the outbreak off their home owner’s insurance, and you and I could have sat in the afterlife and laughed at them until we both cried"

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"But I didn’t get the chance" She leaned over This tirazed n of mental health, but so ot it And you were stronger than I would have been You’re stronger than you think you are All you’ve ever needed to do was let yourself see it"

"I don’t kno er, I’d wager," said Mahir, from behind es, like he was too tired to worry about being understood by the A?"

"About as well as can be expected," I said, stealing one last look at Georgia before I turned, casting an easy smile in his direction I didn’t need to look back to know that George was gone She generally disappeared as soon as I tookher more often with every day that passed, and that onderful, because I missed her soout of time

We can cure cancer We can cure the common cold But no one, anywhere, ever, has found a reliable cure for crazy

"Maggie spoke with you?"