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Starving, since she’d hardly eaten during the barbeque because she was so busy ht to the kitchen where a very so to the bottom of this once and for all
"Will so on?"
She could see it in Grace’s face; it was the sa depressed She bit her lip, looking at Grace then Sal and waited
Angel spoke first "Lorenzo got a call today on his way here froas as Grace’s words froo screamed in her head Vince’s been deployed to Iraq She couldn’t le "What about him?"
"He’s been MIA for days"
It took a moment for her brain to wrap around that--make sense of what she’d just heard MIA? Then it cah school on the war:in action in Iraq, very possibly already dead
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An entire week later they still knew nothing Lorenzo had told her everything right down to the expressions on the faces of the first sergeant, the chaplain, and the base commander that had been sent to his parents’ apartment to deliver the news
On his et there and explained everything they knew Vincent’s entire squad had perished during a battle Everybody but Vincent had been accounted for It’d been nearly a week since he’d goneto notify theation, first to rule out the possibility that Vincent had deserted
Unlike Rose Lorenzo was convinced Vincent was alive She didn’t want to tell hih school, but froht percent of soldiersin action were either never found or found dead
As if this past year hadn’t taken a big enough toll on her emotionally and physically, this had done it The first few days after getting the news, Rose lay in bed refusing to get up for any reason She’d never tell Grace, but she hadwas better than having to endure the pain she was going through now At least when he’d first left, she had hopes of seeing hiain someday It wasn’t until the day Lorenzo showed up teary-eyed, begging her to have faith, that she finally snapped out of it
"Why am I the only one that believes he’s still alive? Why doesn’t anyone else have faith like I do? I knowRose he’d co else, he’d do it for you"
Rose wanted nothing ed at her "That’s the thing, Lorenzo What if he never got my letter? What if he really thinks I’ve moved on?"