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"But she’s one of us Why would she say that?"

"Griffin’s case is different from ours," Simon explained "Not different in the sense that she’s not a hybrid, because she is But different in the reason she’s a hybrid"

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"Her dad worked at this place called the Los Alamos National Laboratory, back in the ’50s It was the same place they did the first atomic bomb tests back in ’45" Si "Her dad was kind of a big deal--some super scientist who knehole helluva lot about biocheht after Watson and Crick had discovered the double helical structure of DNA, so there was still a lot to learn in the field"

"Apparently, there still is," I interjected "Otherwise, ould the Daylighters be so desperate to get their hands on us?"

"I think even without the alien intervention there’s still a lot to learn But yeah, I think we’re somewhat exceptional," Siovern President Eisenhower"

I remembered this "Jett told me about those I think he called thes He said there were all kinds of scientists and high-up officials and even that President Eisenhower had these s with aliens It sounds crazy"

"Crazy, maybe, but hard to dispute when you know the truth," Simon said "Griffin’s father was one of the scientists invited to the et invited" Simon stopped and inhaled, because apparently what he had to say next required a deep-breath kind of delivery "He offered Griffin as sooodwill contribution to the efforts"

"Shut up," I scoffed, but I seriously doubted Si was: How messed up is that? "And they took her?" I asked, but the ansas obvious: of course they’d taken her, or ouldn’t be having this conversation now

Cat had always referred to scenarios like these as train-wreckthe lines of the kind of nasty breakup where one person cheats on the other, or juicy scandals, like when Mr Jasper got caught breaking into the girls’ locker roo

In this case, ere talking about a girl’s life forever altered by sos considered, no wonder she had trust issues

"They did And when she came back--the way so many of us do--she was never the same" He shuddered "But you have to remember, it’s not like she was the first to be taken Thoht about that Natty had mentioned that Thom had barely been a teen when he’d been taken, sometime before the 1950s But that made him, what, at least in his seventies, didn’t it?