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Gabriel tucked the photograph Kelly had given him in the inner pocket of his suit jacket
“Yes She’s Catholic and her faithto her Certainly, she tries to live it”
“And you?”
“I converted to Catholicise I believe, if that’s what you’re asking”
“I don’t think we have a Catholic on the foundation’s board You’ll be the first” Kelly signaled to the waiter to bring the check “Wait till the cousins learn that there’s now a Catholic wing of Reform Judaism”
“It was a mistake” Gabriel huffed into his cell phone, as he connected with Julia’s voice mail “I shouldn’t have come without you
“Julianne, I wish you wouldn’t switch off your phone It’s the best way for otten intodinner with Kelly
“Sorry I couldn’t call you earlier Our conversation went longer than expected She’s very nice You were right, as usual Funny how you’re al slowly]
“The portrait Kelly painted of our father is very different from the one I remember I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the h]
“I wish you were here By the end of dinner I was beginning to doubtfor ine onscratched into the botto to have to extend my visit There’s an aunt Kelly wants to introduceuntil Saturday I’m sorry about that but I think it’s best to tie up all the loose ends before I coe, no matter what time it is” [another pause] “Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra I love you”
Gabriel tossed his cell phone on the large, e his conversation with his sister Much of what she’d said surprised him It was clear that her relationship with her father was loving and good In this respect, as in others, it appeared that he and Kelly had two very different fathers
It had been a relief to have some of his questions answered, even if the answers led to randfather was good A warht
At least I have one blood relative I can be proud of, in addition to my sister
Hoished he could have co Julianne and tell her what had happened Hoished he could crawl into her arms and erase the day He’d s alone And now, as usual, he was forced to live with the consequences
Cursing hi that the hot water would clear his head Then he was going to finish reading his mother’s diary, to see if he could discover the truth about his parents’ relationship
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