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‘Wait a minute!’ Nick slish?’

‘Oh Sorry Well, print runs can range from—’

She explained Print runs Sell-throughs Wholesalers, and distribution, and dealers And he listened Tried to listen, anyway, but it was tough This astute woirl who’d never balanced a checkbook in her life, until he’d shown her how

‘I never had a checkbook before,’ she’d said, when he’d alone crazy the first time the bank had phoned to say their account was overdrawn

‘That’s unbelievable,’ he’d snapped ‘How could you never have written a check?’

‘I charged things I mean, I had accounts wherever I needed them’

That was the first time he’d really understood how different they were They weren’t just a rich girl and a poor boy trying to e work, they were people fro to find a coe

‘I’ you’

‘What?’ Nick blinked ‘Boring…? No Not at all I’ed’

‘I’hteen anymore,’ she said quietly

He nodded ‘Seven years is a long time’

‘A lifetime’

Nick cleared his throat ‘Are you—are you happy?’

‘Yes’ Or, at least, she’d thought she was happy Until the dreahtly ‘I’m very happy I love my work And I love Boston I’ve ot this wonderful apartment… What about you? Are you happy?’

Nick hesitated He hadn’t hesitated a o, when a reporter on This Week had slyly posed him the same question ‘Of course I am,’ he’d said

‘Nick? Are you happy?’

‘Sure’ He sood to me’

‘I know I see the Brennan name everywhere In fact, I stayed in a Brennan hotel the last ti tour’

He grinned ‘And? Did it win the Holly Cabot seal of approval?’

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