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"I never would’ve let Thad go regardless," the woer fro, and the gune"

So MizB would’ve been even more freaked out than Jo had allowed for? She slowed her pacing All this new infor hatred Plus, Thad had grown up sogood Jo couldn’t possibly have done better with him

Because he couldn’t possibly be better "This isn’t the best tiht"

As if she hadn’t spoken, the woman murmured, "At Mr B’s wake, I saw you You were at the , sobbing in the rain as you watched Thad I knew you were going to let hio, because I’d told you that’s what a ht you’d made the decision to pass on"

"I did"

"I mean, to the beyond"

Jo’s patience neared its limit "Oh, for fuck’s sake, woman If Thad didn’t love you, I’d pop you in the face"

Thad’s shocked gaze darted from Jo to MizB and back "Uh, maybe we shouldn’t, um, talk to our elders like that?"

"Elders?" Jo was about to go hysterical The two of them were millennia old!

But MizB smiled "You used to say that to me all the time Do you remember?"

Jo did

"So I’ht But having hope is enough for now"

Uncoht back" She paused at the doorway "You won’t go anywhere?"

Too tired to fight, Jo sank down on the couch again

The wo about the uncle," Thad ive you the lon later"

"I’ this, kid I’d say I’m not usually such a bitch, but it’d be a lie"

"You’re doing awesoed at all, just the opposite "Mos"

"I didn’t know MizB saw e of her nose "I don’t want to say anything that’s gonna hurt or e a shit day before you and I ever mixed it up"