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"I’ain"

"I spent all yesterday looking for it It definitely wasn’t sent to my office"

"Your office never h, Dr Wilson According to the nurse at the desk, Mrs Jio We always talk to the family first, but they don’t seem to be home Her husband hasn’t been to work since the birth"

Duht "I can’t be responsible for people once they leave here"

"But you are responsible for filing the proper docu to have to move her case up the line"

"Well, I’m sure there was one You’re arded her for an unco moment "For now, Dr Wilson"

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Wherever the Ji for the census office to track them down There were only so many places to hide

She tried to put them out of her mind She’d done her best to help, and the situation was out of her hands Sister Peg was right; she had a job to do It was iood at it That hat ht, she aith the feeling that a powerful dream had ejected her from sleep She rose and checked on Kate She felt certain that her daughter had been in this dream, if peripherally; she had not been the focus--rather, a witness, alhter’s cot and watched the night pass through her The girl was deeply asleep, her lips slightly parted, her chest expanding and contracting with long, even breaths, filling the air with her unmistakable scent At the Hoain, it was Kate’s so on She’d kept a baby curl in an envelope, hidden away in her bunk, and each night she had taken it out and pressed it to her face This act was, Sara knew, a form of prayer--not that Kate was still alive, because she’d believed absolutely that her daughter was dead, but that wherever she herever her spirit had gone, it felt like ho behind her Kate stirred, rolled over, and then was quiet again

"Come back to bed," he whispered

"I can sleep in I’ht," she said

When dawn came, Sara ide awake Hollis told her to stay in bed, but she got up anyway; she wouldn’t return from the hospital until after dinner and wanted to take Kate to school She was half-drunk with exhaustion, although this fact did not seement but a source of clarity At the door of the school, she hugged her daughter tightly It did not seeo that Sara had needed to kneel to do this; now the crown of Kate’s head reached Sara’s chest