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“Well Thanks again I think I’ll go for a bike ride It’s a beautiful day ”

Scot went over to the front door of his office, got the bike, and guided it back to her

She wanted to tell hi there today For years she’d prepared to be all alone when she got out of prison, and she sa painful that would have been

“You’re welcome,” he said quietly

She nodded one last time and took the bike from him and rode away

Soon she was sood to be free, to turn when she felt like it and go where she wanted She would never take this for granted

She spun by the theater—saw that they’d added on to it—and the bank and the beauty salon where Aunt Eva had gotten her hair cut There, she saw a pay phone After a quick signal, she turned into the parking lot and called Eva, collect

There was no answer

Disappointed, she cli

The ice cream shop was still there; beside it was a new coffee shop and a comput

er repair place

When she cay like she repole was still there and that was enough

Meet…

She pedaled harder, down the bumpy asphalt road and up Raspberry Hill Out here, there were occasional dirt roads and the odd , and the sky was a deep ht Road She hadn’t even meant to turn here

But here she was, at the hairpin turn The skid one, but the broken tree re