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“She is the fanciest of the three of us,” Margot agrees

“What about me?” Kitty whiirl I have to beg you to wash your feet at night, ets pinched and red “I wasn’t talking about that, you dodo bird I was talking about Paris”

Airily, I wave her off “You’re too little to stay at a hostel”

She crawls over to Margot and cli to sit in people’s laps “Margot, you’ll let o, won’t you?”

“Maybe it could be a fa her cheek “You and Lara Jean and Daddy could all coining Over Kitty’s head Josh ive hiht; Josh is long gone Kitty and our dad are asleep We are in the kitchen Margot is at the table on her coh into balls and dropping theet back in Kitty’s good graces Earlier, when I went in to say good night, Kitty rolled over and wouldn’t speak toto try to cut her out of the Paris trip My plan is to put the snickerdoodles on a plate right next to her pillow so she wakes up to the s extra quiet, and then, out of nowhere, she looks up froht After dinner”

My cookie-dough ball falls out of ar bowl

“I mean, it was time,” she says Her eyes aren’t red-ri, I don’t think Her voice is cal at her would think she was fine Because Margot is always fine, even when she’s not

“I don’t see why you had to break up,” I say “Just ’cause you’re going to college doesn’tto Scotland, not UVA Saint Andrews is nearly four thousand lasses “What would be the point?”

I can’t even believe she would say that “The point is, it’s Josh Josh who loves you ot rolls her eyes at this She thinks I’ draot He would never so irl

Suddenly she says, “Do you knohat Moet all about Josh Because no ot and I are in the et hit by a car, I will always stop and listen to a story about Moot has, I want to have it too I’h Kitty doesn’t have one iven her We’ve told her so many stories so many times that they’re hers now “Remember that time,” she’ll say And then she’ll tell the story like she was there and not just a little baby