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"When I was sixteen, they sent me to school in New York That was the last time I saw them "

"So they were idealists, too "

"What do you mean, too?"

She saw no reason to put it into words, this knowledge shed gleaned over the years, cobbled together into an ie of his life "It doesnt matter You were lucky to be raised by people who believed in so "

He stared at her, frowning

"Is that why you becaht in your oay?"

He sighed and shook his head, then walked over to the sofa and sat down beside her The way he looked at her, as if she were somehoatery or out of focus, made her heartbeat speed up "How do you do that?"

"What?"

"Know me?"

She s it didnt look as brittle as it felt "Weve worked together a long time "

It was a long , Mularkey?"

She leaned back a little "Re you cant have? I to be a kick-ass reporter or a first-rate producer I dont live and breathe the news Ih "

"I said, it ful to want someone you couldnt have "

"Wellits all the same "

"Is it?" He put his drink on the coffee table