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She shook her head "I have no idea Really I’uess"

"You think Rick Bergen was the friend in trouble?"

"I doubt it I knew Rick I think Bobby would have told me if it had been Rick"

"Somebody at work?"

"Look, I just can’t help you with that," she said iht-lipped and I wasn’t in a lad the abortion was over with I was taking pain-killers anyway so I slept a lot and the rest was a blur He was just talking for the sake of it, to take s and maybe a little bit fro to you?"

"I don’t think so"

She pulled on a pair of sweatpants and slipped her feet into sos She bent at the waist, flipped her hair across one shoulder, and gave it a couple of whacks with a hairbrush, then grabbed up her shoulder bag,toward the door I had to do a quick two-step to catch up with her I didn’t think she’d finished dressing but I could see now that this was all she intended to wear Sweatpants and an undershirt? She was going to freeze once she got outside I scurried after her, catching the door as she passed into the corridor

"Who else was he hanging out with back then?" I asked, trotting up the stairs to the otta have so back-at me "Try a kid named Gus I don’t know his last name, but he works at that skate-rental place down at the beach He’s an old high-school buddy and I think Bobby trusted him Maybe he’ll knohat its about"

"What were the other things? You said you got pregnant ’as’"

Her smile was tense "God, you are so persistent He was in love with someone else I have no idea who, so don’t bother to ask If I’d known about the other wo before As it was, I didn’t hear about her until I told hiht marry me, but when he told me he was seriously involved with someone else, I knehat I had to do To his credit, he did feel terrible about the bind I was in and he did ascheap about Bobby and he really was a sweet guy at heart"

She started torapidly "Carrie, is there a chance that the friend in trouble and the woman he was involved ere one and the saave you a little red address book, did he?"