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"So you feel an obligation to do right by her son?"

A tear spilled over onto her cheek With his thuers around her neck "Frannie…"

"One day she told me about this wonderful play and that she knew a felloould let us into the theater through the back door Feagan had always told ht isn’t a place for you Always come back to me before the dark’ But I wanted to see the play So I stayed with Nancy until it got dark And alked down an alley…and someone jumped out at me and put a sack over my head and I screaled sob and lass fro with his own He wanted to comfort her, but he knew that she had h he could take away the pain, and God kneanted to, but until he kneas causing it--

"All these years, Sterling, I thought I’d deserved what happened"

"No one deserves what happened to you"

She shook her head forcibly "I’d been bad I here I wasn’t supposed to be, doing what I wasn’t supposed to be doing Feagan had warnedWhen I was taken, I thought it was don and they arrested hi hiuilty I felt"

"Frannie, you are to blaht, Nancy…Nancy told s up so that I’d be taken like that"

"Ah, dear God, Frannie" He drew her onto his lap, holding her close, rocking her while she wept

"They kneould happen and they did it on purpose"

He tah his or venting his own anger He had to care for her Had to console his precious Frannie

"I was taken somewhere I didn’t knohere My clothes were stripped fro ins don’t yet carry disease So his shirt

"I thought I’d pushed all the horror away, but so someone wished it upon me, made it come to pass"