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“I’et my husband, Helen”

The woman she’d known since childhood wouldn’t look at her “He’s being questioned, Vivi Ann Albert says he’ll return him as soon as he can You can wait in the lunchrooht be a while”

Aurora and Winona came up behind her and led her down to the lunchroom There, they sat inbitter coffee fro ; each tried to make conversation, but the black and white wall clock kept ticking past the minutes

“You know about this stuff, Winona,” Vivi Ann finally said “What are they doing?”

“Questioning hi”

Vivi Ann looked at her “Innocent peopleto hide”

“You need to be prepared for the worst here,” Winona said evenly

“You’ve been waiting for this, haven’t you, Win? You can’t wait to tell ht”

“Vivi, don’t,” Aurora said “We shouldn’t fight now”

“I was right,” Winona said “If you’d listened toin the police station right now I told you Dallas would cause trouble He’s been on the wrong side of the law his whole life”

“Get out of here, Winona,” Vivi Ann snapped “I don’t want you with me”

“Vivi, you don’t mean that,” Aurora said

“Dallas always said you were jealous ofthis”

“Just because I knew this would happen doesn’tit What did you expect, with a man like him?”

“Of course you don’t understand The only thing you know about love is how it feels not to have it Has any man ever said he loved you?”