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But each day it went on, each time Mom seemed disconnected to the world and confused by it, Meredith lost a little bit of faith in Dr Burns’s assessrief How else to explain her mother’s sudden obsession with leather shoes and pounds of butter (which Meredith now found hidden all through the house), and the fairy-tale lion that she so about?

Meredith touched her not-htened child “It’s okay, Mom We have plenty of food downstairs ”

“I’ll sleep for a o to the roof ”

“No going to the roof,” Meredith said tiredly

Mohed and closed her eyes Within moments, she was asleep

Meredith went around the roo up the blankets and other items Mom had dropped

Downstairs, she put a load of clothes in the washer so they’d be ready to go when she got here toes for Jillian and Maddy

It was ten o’clock by the time she was done

At ho on his book

“Hey,” she said, co into the room

He didn’t turn around “Hey ”

“How’s the book going?”

“Great ”

“I still haven’t read it ”

“I know ” He turned to her then