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"Were you involved with Bobby?"

"No, I wasn’t ’involved’ with Bobby What do youan affair?"

"Yeah, like that"

"God, you are so iinative For your information, I didn’t even think about hiht about you that way"

She stopped pacing "Says who?"

"Just a theory of mine You know he loved you Why wouldn’t he have sexual feelings as well?"

"Oh come on Did Bobby say that?"

"No, but I saw his reaction the night you were hospitalized I didn’t think it was strictly brotherly love I was looking at In fact, I asked Glen about it at the ti on"

"Well, there wasn’t"

"Too bad Maybe you could have saved each other"

She rolled her eyes, giving eeks!-but she was restless and distracted She located an ashtray on the chest of drawers and stubbed out her cigarette She lifted the lid to a music box and let a few notes of "Laras Theain When she looked at ain, she had tears in her eyes and she seemed embarrassed by that

She pushed away frootta pack my stuff"

She went into the closet and hauled out a canvas duffel She opened her top dresser drawer and snatched up a stack of underpants, which she shoved into the duffel She bu T-shirts, jeans, socks

I got up andback withlasts, you know Not even misery "

"Yeah, sure Especially not s for, ht?"

"Shit, why don’t you go work in a rescue ot the line down pat"

"One day so to coht to keep yourself alive so you can enjoy it"