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"You heard everything he said, didn’t you?"

He jerked to a sitting position "Molly? Why are you here, in the dark?"

"Waiting for you I saw you lift hiround and hit hi hih I doubt he can Why did you ever think you loved him?"

"I was nineteen years old and stupid"

"And he was the big rock star"

"Yes, and I was super-impressed A friend of mine who knew him introduced us You heard hio out with him was because I was Little Miss Sweet Innocence I didn’t go to bed with hiht, and that was probably why he asked o to bed with hiht I smoked marijuana, drank too much- Oh God, that sounds pathetic Anyway, I just floated off with him to his bed" She shuddered with the ave me Emma I would have danced with the devil if the result was Emma"

"Of course you would have," he said, and rose fro by the openThere was a quarter ht into the bedroo he said, didn’t you?"

"Yes It felt good to hit hi"

"Do you really think he had so?"

"Maybe If he did, you hit it right on the head He wanted hisback to the sa us? Reotten Eot the distinct impression that if they’d found us, we’d all be dead Why? That wouldn’t give theh piercing cry that had them out of his bedroom in an instant and down the hall into Eathered Eht, baby, really, it’s all right That’s right, just breathe deeply now for Mama You’re okay I’m here Ramsey’s here too"

He sat down on the other side of the bed and rubbed E

"Was it that awful ainst her mother’s shoulder "I woke up when there was this noise I looked over He was at theHe was staring in atHe had bad teeth, just like before"