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Her slare stopped her frouess we should take some pictures" She lifted a handful of papers fro for rab your insurance fro pictures downstairs Then I’ll help you up here"

"All right"

She didn’t look all right to hi up about how she was feeling, Glen left the roo under her breath to herself once he was out of sight "Things were just going too goodso had to happen"

He hesitated at the top of the stairs, glanced over his shoulder

Mary felt as if a freight train had run over her by the time the sun had set

The homeowners insurance took about an hour on the phone, with the pro norive her fifteenher know that her homeowners policy would be responsible for her car because it was parked in her garage at the time of the vandalism When Mary called the home insurance people back about her car, they couldn’t confire on it

While she sat on the phone, Glen swept up broken dishes, put anything that survived the crash into the dishwasher or washed it by hand Mary kept the phone to her ear and helped hied Not that there was ar everywhereto the floor

It looked like she’d be doing so just to replace her essentials

She started one of thethat the ave her hives

Mary made the necessary calls to her Monday afternoon clients last Stating a personal eized and rescheduled three of the Mrs Golf Even though she couldn’t point a finger at Jacob directly, he was the only person who ca questions about people in her life acting irrationally

The crazy thing, even for her, was that some of her clients had priors in the pasttwo she could name who had vandalized an ex’s homebut she didn’t think for a minute either of the rooe can" The couch was slashed, along with the chairs Refinishing the The lamps were busted, well, one of the twoand the coffee table had glass in the center that was spread all over the carpet

"I haven’t lived on cardboard boxes for years," she said with half a laugh

Glen pulled the garbage can he had rolled into the kitchen beside her

"Builds character"

He was atte to make her smileand she did

She knelt with a dustpan as Glen swept in the glass "Did he have to s all this carpet is going I’lass in it for years if I kept it"

"Good way to look at it"

She had to, or she’d be in tears

And she didn’t cry

A knock on the front door had Mary jolting upright

"Hey, guys?" The voice belonged to Walt