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I glanced away from her It was true Bobby looked like he had been attacked: torn and broken and y field that repels the observer I’ve never looked at a horaphs of the dead chill and repulse me

I shifted back to thefor Dr Fraker at the tiht Jim F rakers been a friend of mine for years That s why Bobby was hired at St Terry’s, as ahad he worked there?"

"At the hospital itself, y for two months, I think"

"And what did he actually do?"

"Cleaned equipment, ran errands, answered the phone It was all routine They’d taught him to do a few lab tests and soine his job entailed anything that would endanger his life"

"He had his degree fro what Bobby’d toldto get accepted to med school His first applications had been turned down"

"How coot cocky and only applied to about five schools He’d always been an excellent student and he’d never failed at anything in his life He miscalculated Med schools are ferociously coet accepted to the ones he tried for It set him back on his heels for a time, but he’d rallied, I think I know he felt the job with Dr Fraker was valuable, because it gave him some exposure to disciplines he wouldn’t otherwise have known about untilon in his life at that point?"

"Not a lot He went to work He dated He did so, surfed now and then He went to movies, went out to dinner with us It all seemed very ordinary at the ti back"

There was another avenue I needed to explore and I wondered how she would react "Were he and Kitty involved with one another sexually?"

"Ah Well, I can’t really answer that I have no idea"

"But it’s possible"

"I suppose so, though I don’t think it’s likely Derek and I have been together since she was thirteen Bobby was eighteen, nineteen, so like that Out of the house at any rate I do think Kitty was smitten with him I don’t kno he felt about her, but I can’t believe a thirteen-year-old would interest hirown up pretty fast fros restlessly, wrapping one around the other "I don’t understand why you’re pursuing this point"

"I need to knoas going on He was anxious about her tonight and ht I wondered how deep the connections ran"

"Oh I see A lot of his emotionalism is the aftermath of the accident From what I’m told, it’s not uncommon for people who’ve suffered head injury He’s moody now Iets very frustrated with himself"

"Is part of that the memory loss?"

"Yes," she said "What makes it hard is he can never predict where the losses will occur Sos, then he’ll tnrn around and forget his own birthdate Or he’ll blank out on soether, maybe someone he’s known all his life That’s one of the reasons he’s seeing Leo Kleinert To help hies"

"He toldDr Kleinert, too Was that for the anorexia?"

"Kitty’s been iathered thatperson to consult about her I did try, but I don’t give a daht I know it sounds cruel, but I can’t take it seriously She does it to herself It’s her life Let her do anything she wants as long as it doesn’t affect the rest of us She can drop dead for all I care"

"It looks like her behavior affects you whether you like it or not," I ventured carefully This was clearly touchy stuff and I didn’t want to antagonize her

"I’’s got to change I’ hera question I’d been curious about "You think the drugs were actually hers?"