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“To ents, of course For my book”

I had to curb reed that was over”

“For five thousand dollars?” Shesound “Aria Lynne, you are a senior executive at 10,000 Lux and you’re going to let your h her last pennies?”

Really?

I wanted to screah for this woman!

And now that azines, she wanted to swoop in and pretend to be the doting mother she’d never once been?

I didn’t knohat to make of her I didn’t knohat to do with her After I’d turned eighteen and no longer had to legally spend any ti to Scottsdale to visit her She hadn’t complained, nor had she traveled up the hill to see raduation congrats? Not a peep

She’d cutno value in our association

But now that it seemed I had some relevance in the world—a littledown my door?

I was furious that she’d do this to

Yet here she was, suddenly threatening my dad’s reputation and perhaps even his livelihood Not to e and career

I abandoned the tapping of the pen and demanded, “What is it that you want, Mother?”

“Well, I’ve been watching a lot of Oprah lately—I would just love to be on her show—and it seems that a book such as mine could land e”

My heart nearly stopped “I don’t have that kind of money”

“But you ures at 10,000 Lux Correct? I’reement”