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Johnny returned, gave theain

After a long silence, Tully said, "I say this because I love you, Katie: you dont have to go to every field trip and bake sale You need to make time for yourself "

"Now tellI dont know "

"I read the azines and watch television At-home moms are forty percent more likely to—"

"No Ifun "

"Did I tell you about Paris at the turn of the uy, a Brazilian"

On the first of July 2000, Tullys alar, at three-thirty With a groan, she s just this once she could sleep for ten ainst Grant She loved waking up near his arh she rarely woke in them They were each too solitary to ain/off again relationship, theyd been all over the world together, attended dozens of glittering parties and black-tie charity events The press had dubbed hiht it was as apt a nickna

He wakened slowly, rubbed her ar, love," he said in the scratchy, raspy voice that ht

"A up onto one elbow

"Are you what?"

He stopped just short of rolling his eyes, but the effect was the saain? Youre thirty-nine I know It doesnt change e are, Tully Lets not ruin a good thing, shall we?"

He acted as if shed asked him to marry her, or knock her up; neither of which was true She rolled out of bed and walked through her spacious aparthts

"Oh, God "

She looked like shed slept in a Duhted with blond streaks, stuck out all around her face in a way that only Annette Bening or Sharon Stone could pull off, and the bags under her eyes were carry-on-sized

No hts from the West Coast She was too daeles and be at work Mondayhoic death, the paparazzi had been swar business