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"You do any drugs now?"

"No, and I haven’t had a drink in fifteen years Alcohol ue loose I couldn’t take the chance"

"Who was she involved with? Any indication at all?"

He shook his head again "The guy was married"

"How do you know?"

"She told me that much"

"And you believed her?"

"I can’t think why she would have lied He was soe"

"So this was somebody with a lot to lose if the truth cauess I mean, she sure didn’t want to have to tell him she was knocked up She was scared"

"She could have had an abortion"

"I guess… if it came to that She only found out about the baby that day"

"Who was her doctor?"

"She didn’t have one yet for that Dr Dunne was the fanancy test at some clinic down in Lompoc so nobody’d knoho she was"

"Seems pretty paranoid Was she that well known?"

"She was in Floral Beach"

"What about Tap? Could the kid have been his?"

"Nope She thought he was a jerk and he didn’t like herto hiiven this a lot of thought"

"I don’t know She was illegiti to find out who her old man was Her mom refused to tell her, but ured he had to be around someplace"

"She saw the checks?"