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Elsa i like this It was suffocating And the last thing in the world she wanted was to be ignored by hiht

“Ma in beside her mother “Mama?”

“You see I a to Mrs Tolliver?”

“Yes I’ well”

“Tooat her friend

“I think I should go home,” Elsa said

Mama nodded “Of course”

Elsa was careful not to look at Rafe as she walked toward the open door Couples spun past her on the dance floor

She opened the door and stepped out into the wared shut behind her, softening the strains of the fiddlefeet

She h the collection of parked cars, past the horse-draagons that brought the less successful farmers to town for events like this

Main Street was quiet now, bathed in a butterscotch glow that wo

uld soon ht She stepped up onto the boardwalk

“Els?”

She stopped, turned slowly

“I’ uncomfortable