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There’d be hell to pay if she lost her deposit because her amorous parents—for the love of God—had put dents in the Sheetrock fro had this been going on? And what did itshe sat curled up in the swing, rando in her head She juia?”

“There’s coffee in the kitchen”

“Look, about what you—”

She held up her hand “I don’t ever wanna talk about it Ever Or think about it Ever I’ the sun will fry es no child should ever see”

“You’re being ridiculous,” her mother chided “It’s not the first tiod, Mom I don’t need to know that!”

“What? That I still like sex? Or that I still like sex with Robert—”

“Stop talking! Stop talking right now” Georgia stuck her fingers in her ears and said, “La la la I can’t hear you,” just in case heron

There was so off, and she slammed the back door

That wasn’t exactly mature either

She should’ve stayed with Tell until he finished chores Then she wouldn’t have known her parents were some sort of fk buddies

Fuck buddies

Her parents

She’d laugh if she didn’t feel like crying, yelling and hiding—all at the same time

“Are you done with your snit?” her mother asked with that imperious Russian inflection

“Maybe”

Metal scraped across the ce so Georgia couldn’t escape “I’m sorry you walked in on us”

“Not as sorry as I am,” she muttered

“For heaven’s sake, you’re a little old to be trauh you and Tell McKay were doing the exact saht”

Do not blush “But you didn’t have to see it, did you? And what aether?”

Her uilt because she was just using her ex-husband for sex?

“The truth is I don’t knohat happens next Robert and I…have issues Too ain, it’s like those issues disappear”

Good Lord Was she talking about…lust?

“That’s hen I left him I had to move far away Because e’re in those intiround Then reality sets in and I…”