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"YOU OGHT TO KNOW EVERYTHING," STATED JESSE, SUDDENLY, while they were going through the B&B's books that afternoon "I've been deliberately mysterious and I don't want to be any him to continue

"Mary Anne asked me to… Well… to… sort of… take care of you"

His words were too unexpected to raise any eazed at her, gauging the effects of what he'd just said

She placed the sheets of paper she was holding slowly back on the table

"And ould she do that?"

"I guess she felt she didn't havefor you"

"Listen, Jesse, I'm not destitute, ok? I was sad when she met me; that's true It was - it still is - a difficult situation for s in reat, because she made me recover my faith in friendship, which was sooisht words to ain That was fundaet it

But if the words you just pronounced did come out of her ht she was"

Jesse looked at her as if he were looking at hi exactly like he would have in that same situation He hadn't realized that until now

"Kathy, don't be ic words How s over with David and he hadn't listened? Howtheir frequent periods of separation and he hadn't answered? And then she had s over anymore She didn't like that, so she wouldn't refuse soht"

"I adan, "that at first I was too selfish to realize that this situation involved two other people besides myself I didn't know you then, if that s differently - from a broader perspective - and I aood friend to you even after her… death"