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"Everyone goes through stuff, Vivian She’s thinking about leaving San Diego andup north She needed to talk it out Sos out loud to really hear it"

"I can say so up at hiry?

He nodded to so ets home okay?" he said quietly to Jessica, and she nodded

Which et home okay I can take care of myself, you know," I snapped

He just looked at , I preferred the angry Clark

He turned away, chatted with John for a athered his cousin froood-bye

He was gone I was drunk With half o home

I woke up with a ball of awful in ue With each step toward the bathrooht the sunshine was here, how very loud seagulls could be, and how very briny the ocean sht outside yourTheletting in all that daht

As I weaved down the hallway, Caroline appeared in her doorway, fresh and pretty, the fker

"Morning, sunshine," she said, and I punched her in the shoulder Not hard "Nice," she said

I nodded back and made for the sink With a mouthful of toothpaste I splashed water over my face and evaluated And then evacuated the contents of htfully closed the door as I sat on the floor, waving her away

"I’et you some saltines," she called, and I s for a moment, then splashed some water on my face a second ti a little better, I grabbed my robe off the back of the door andapart my pantry "No saltines, but I found some oyster crackers"

I smiled weakly "I’ll take ’eehaehammer handy; how about a screwdriver?" She followeddown the crackers and so as it’s the tool, not the cocktail Anything will feel better than the hell I’ratefully and munched on a few crackers "Did I really unbutton ht?"

"You did The table next to us was taking bets on whether you’d take your bra off, Flashdance style" Sheburners

"How’d you figure out how to do that so fast? It took et that damn stove to work," I said "Not to mention the percolator"