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"That would be great," he said, though he’d already had enough coffee to screw up his nerves pretty good

Jack handed off David to Paul while he went for coffee and a bowl of dry Cheerios for his son They settled in the Adirondack chairs, looking out over the valley below David sat on the porch floor with his bowl of cereal between his legs

"You don’t look too good," Jack said

"I’s up After little Matt was born, after I went ho in there with Vanni and not really taking any tiht’ve vented a little bit There’s this girl back in Grants Pass…"

"You vent on this girl?" Jack asked

"I vented in her She’s pregnant"

"Well, holy shit That was brilliant What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking ere protected I’d been with her a couple of times before You know--before Matt was killed How i to do?" Jack asked

"I’ the baby, so I’ toher any favors I o I wasn’t seeing her regularly I feel terrible about this"

"Man," Jack said

"What’s your best advice, bud?"

"How pregnant is she?"

"It happened after I got back to Grants Pass A couple ofto have to tell Vanni Pretty soon I tried last night, but I screwed up And even without knowing the details, she flipped out, tore irl back home I hadn’tto kill un"

"Hold on there," Jack said "One thing at a tiet yourself tested for STDs--do that tomorrow If you used protection, I don’t know…ht of that Thing is, she says she hadn’t been with a guy for so long, she got a little lazy with the pills and I used a condoe?"

"Yeah, that was the first thing…"