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"Have you been practicing?"

"Yes, and I’ht you sleep"

Claire kissed Søren on the cheek and grabbed Eleanor by the ar Eleanor up the steps "We can talk about hi us"

"I already do," Søren said from behind them

Eleanor followed Claire to the red rooood taste Giant four-poster bed, huge couches, portrait art on the walls--it looked like a roolish estate rather than an American mansion

"Nice" Eleanor nodded her approval

"It’s okay Old-fashioned Are you in love withon the floor

"Can you tell ht answer to that question before I answer it?"

Claire grinned ear to ear With that big s as her older brother

"If I wasn’t his sister I’d be in love with him I am in love with him, but not that way"

"He’s worried about you" Eleanor hoped a careful change of subject would work "He wants to knohy you stopped writing hiroaned and threw herself onto the bed She buried her face against a pillow and laughed

This seeirl whose father died that week Eleanor decided to roll with it

Claire flipped onto her back and s for the boxer shorts and Pearl Ja a brother for a priest"

"You ht" Claire nodded

"I don’t have any brothers or sisters, so having a brother would be weird enough to start with But the priest thing, yeah, that’s gotta be weird"

"It’s beyond weird Plus he’s thirty and I’ stuff, dating, getting inal one, right? Instead he hasn’t dated anybody since he was a teenager and I’m …"

"You have a boyfriend" Eleanor stripped out of her shirt and unhooked her bra

"I do"

"And you two are …"

"Yeah" Claire winced

Eleanor glared at her