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"I’ve been thinking about Shelly and I realized I didn’t know anything about her faeles Tustin or Irvine, I forget which," he said "Her fanant with Shawn"

"That’s too bad Itanyway, so it was no big deal She says they’re a bunch of pigs with their heads up their butts"

"I see" She hesitated and then plunged on "I’ it up, but your father and I are curious about your plans I wondered if you wanted to discuss the situation"

"Not particularly Plans for what?"

"We assu and she looked over to see hi room, stark naked He dashed into the kitchen with a certain brash confidence, whooping and leaping to claim their attention Deborah looked over at hialloped away She could hear his bare feet slapping down the hall as he ran around the house, circling through the living rooh the living roo had learned to block out the child’s shrieking, which Shelly, of course, encouraged as freedo what?"

"You have a family to support At the bare minimum, you have to have inco with the bus? We’re doing fine Unless you begrudge us the parking space"

"Of course we don’t begrudge you the parking space Don’t be ridiculous All I’ like vagabonds"

"Shelly doesn’t want to be tied down She likes being on the road Lots of our friends do the sao with the flow"

"What will you do for money? Babies are expensive Surely, I don’t have to tell you that"

"Mom, would you just cool it with this stuff? I’m twenty-one years old I don’t need your advice We’ll take care of it, okay?"

Deborah let that one roll off her back and tried again "Could you at least give us an idea how long you plan to stay?"

"Why? You want us out of here?"

Shawn tiptoed into the rooerated steps Deborah watched hi with his hands out in front of hi a swipe Greg growled and grabbed at hialloped toward the dining room "You can’t catch me! You can’t catch ling at his ears Off he went again Deborah absolutely could not stand the child