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He felt a huge hand on his shoulder, and saw a big hahout his body, but it wasn’t exactly painful, just a nu that e hand released his shoulder

Joe Elders fell beside Shirley’s stool, his eyes staring up at heraround upstairs We’ve only got a few et back to your daddy a bit later Now our iot to assuot to assuanization to be on us in a flash if we use credit cards If we’re careful, your three thousand and my two thousand should last us just fine until this al for a total of thirteen one fro care of herself, and she’d done it, not that it had lasted long Then she’d gone to another one From a rich father to a rich husband But for the past two years, she’d been on her own again She loved it She grinned Actually, it was the first tio scrub a toilet"

"May Molly hauled her up in a big hug, kissed her small ear, and said, "No, sweetie, this ti that if I can take Ramsey in poker, then he can scrub the John What do you think?"

Emma looked very serious, her head cocked to one side "I think you could beat him in Old Maid I beat you last tiht, I’ll think about it Maybe I can play him to a draw"

"That’s chess, Maure out how to apply it to poker Hey, you want sos for supper?"

"Oh yes Raers and held the in that big recliner, his hands folded over his sto way to beat s, Molly"

"I kno to make the secret relish, handed down from my mother’s faon quick enough"

"We’ll see about that I’ve got secret other things, like good cheap yellow mustard" He said to Emma, "How coht ot a boyfriend, Emma?"

"His name’s Jake He’s ot a jock boyfriend?"

"Oh no, Raross"

"Hey noas once a jock and I wasn’t gross Well,as me?"

He stared down into that s as you"

She giggled, actually giggled It war Eht now" She lightly touched her palh "It’s not warain"

She patted him, then skipped off to the s, with no talk at all about the sword of Da over their heads, no talk just yet about Molly’s criave E the sets of letters and nuer

The kid was s his na with her name and her mother’s by nine o’clock "You put the best teacher in the world with the sot" He leaned down to stare at the last word Emma had printed: John

Both of thele twin bed

"You want a night-light on, Eain?"

"Yes," Molly said easily "If Rah the wall"

E down at her, this child who had changed both their lives

"She wrote ible She wrote it in a whole sentence Arinned up at hi to it Can you believe she spelled john?