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"What about the hospital?"

"Let Jenny run it She’s ready"

"Sara, you do nothing but complain about Jenny"

Sara was taken aback "I do?"

"Nonstop"

She wondered if this was true "Well, soo for a visit to start, to see how it feels Get the lay of the land"

"They may not actually want us out there, you know," Hollis said

"Maybe not But if it seereed, we can put in for a ho in town I could open an office there Hell, you’ve got enough books right here to start a library of your own"

Hollis frowned dubiously "All of us crammed into that tiny house"

"So we’ll sleep outside I don’t care They’re our kids"

He took a long breath Sara knehat Hollis was going to say; it was just ahim say it

"So when do you want to leave?"

"That’s the thing," she said, and kissed hi under the spotlights at the base of the drydock, watching a distant figure swinging over the side of the ship in a bosun’s chair

"For godsakes," Lore yelled "Who did this fucking weld?"

Greer sighed In six hours, Lore had seen very little that she actually approved of She lowered the chair to the dock and stepped free

"I need half a dozen guys down here now Not the saled her face upward "Weir! Are you up there?"

Theup three et Rand I want these seams redone by sunrise" Lore looked at Greer from the corner of her eye "Don’t say it I ran that refinery for fifteen years I knohat I’"