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"No, it’s not," she said, so plainly "What we did was very different"

I squeezedin "How’s it different?"

"Have you ever talked to someone about this, Nate?"

I jolted away fro in rasping at et it out, to help you understand the distinction"

I shook h school? She guessed Saw evidence of it herself"

She nodded, probably because she herself had connected the dots And et as close as I allowed Jessie to get this weekend And what had that gotten uilt

"Your father," she said, her voice soft, cautious "Used it as a fear tactic To beat soed at the truth of her state just how plain it looked on ain

"We,"--she ether That’s the difference"

"I’ainst the top of her hair

"A few months after my father died fro center on campus It’s free for students," she said and then shook her head, as if re power because I wasn’t a student struggling with finances But it did, becauseto sorief"

"I’ her "But what does that have to do with rieving your lost childhood I saw it so plainly in your eyes in front of that house"

My breaths were co harder, faster She was so spot-on But she didn’t know the other part of it "What if I end up just like him?’

"You won’t," she said

"But there’s already confirmation that I have Just look at theaway from her "I’m so damn sorry, Jessie Thiswhat happened between usit can never happen again"