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IF PAT HADN'T LOST HER AUNT SO RECENTLY, SHE WOULD HAVE been glowing

"I just approached him," she told Kathy for the third time, "showed him the letter and asked: Did you send this to ht I was self-confident enough to do that At first, I could only focus on the need I had of knowing right ahether it had been him or not And when I actually asked, I realized howto affect ht away Yes, he said with that grave voice of his… And it was bliss

Youso silly…"

"No!" answered her friend, unable to remove the amused smile from her face "I don't! I'm so happy for you!"

She really was And she felt proud to have contributed in so face was also due to the two entertaining days she'd spent with her father and Jesse They'd explored the island, visiting its ain felt the soothing effect of tourisave her a broader perspective of things Thanks to this busy relaxation, she didn't let the fact that her nant sister's whi Of course she kneas childish to feel that way But whenever she tried to analyze the situation objectively, she always came to the conclusion that she did have some cause for bitterness - so a book lately where it was claier the potential disappoint to couples, but it could very well apply to sisterhood She had probably ed She'd spent a happy childhood, as well as part of her teenage years, relying mostly on Mary and Doris, notmust have not been mutual - or at least not as intense for them - so that when they reached their late teens and early twenties there was a gradual and in tian to be too busy with boyfriends, without with one another, for that matter She found some comfort in the fact that it had been a three-branch separation and not thes had changed And now she sort of felt that Mary was dragging theirspiral of alteration