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Derek buttoned his coat and gathered his scarf as it bleildly in the air "I’ with ain, but I jerked away

"You’re not er," I yelled, as if that could make any of the and I dance and …She was sick and scared, and ere broke That’s why she granted you custody" Even though it hurt to admit it--not to the people of Bethlehem, but to myself--I had to say, "My et in the chopper Now! Before I call the authorities," Derek warned

"You mean the sheriff?" Aunt Mary asked Then she pointed to a ht there Let’s ask him Hi, Ben"

"Hey, Mary You need soot this"

"That’s corruption," Derek said

"Yeah Let’s ask the county judge" Aunt Mary turned to the wo the piano "Your honor?"

The judge gathered her hands together and studied me "I see no reason to remove this child fro her leave with some man we don’t know And since the courts are adjourned for the holidays, I see no choice but to allow her to reh Christmas"

"This is ridiculous," Derek scoffed "She’s Liddy Chauardian! When the press hears about this--"

"When the press hears what, Derek?" I snapped "That I ran away from you? That you had no idea where I was for almost a week and never notified the authorities? That my mother was under the influence of so ave you custody that she couldn’t even re to tell the press Because there are a few things I’d like to tell the "Coet this ever happened"

"Do you want to go with hiaze and kept it

"Do you?" he asked, and I couldn’t deny the truth, the reason why I never could stop running

"If I don’t go, he’ll coht we met "I’m worth a lot of money to them"

"Oh, honey," Aunt Mary said, "don’t you know you’re worth more than money to us?"

"You had your little break, Liddy Now, stop kidding yourself You want to be a star You can’t give that up," Derek said It was alht I used to lovepeople happy--that made me happy But … but I didn’t knohat happy was then"