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"Just one wedding dress," I say "And you can’t see me in it It’s bad luck"

"I think we’ve had all the bad luck any two hus are allowed in one lifeties for the better"

I kiss him on the nose, the one part of his face that escaped his encounter with Ricardo "Then don’t look atday"

The one arhtens "Deal And don’t you shoot anyone else until the big day Unless they deserve it, like I hear the kid today did"

I squeeze him back "Deal"

"Wow, Heather, I love your hair like that," Jessica says as Cooper and I enter the shop, reaching up to touch the French braid Magda’s given ood look for you Anyway, don’t listen to Nicole, it’s not that big a deal"

"What’s not that big a deal?" I ask The owner of the shop, Lizzie Nichols, gives da androoown I’ve purchased fro to my exact measurements I’m not too surprised to see that Hal has accompanied Cooper to the shop and has taken up residency on a pink fainting couch beside a shabby-chic ivory-colored coffee table, looking completely uncomfortable and out of place

I aham fabric ar es on his s a pawnbroker is a full-time business, after all)

What surprises h from behind me, and I turn around

It’syou have the answer; you knoho you are and you knohat you want

Lao Tzu

Really?" I ask in disbelief

Because I haven’t been through enough in one day? I’ve had one resident reveal he’s put his and another resident’s lives at risk by entering into a e forbidden by his criminally despotic father

I’ve had to shoot another resident because he took a student hostage at knifepoint

And now this?

I’ht out of the shop, chalass still in hand, whenthe door with his body

"Just listen to what your nation