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“A love potion, child, to take with you”

“I can’t afford”

“No money, child”

“I don’t believe”

“You will, child, you’ll believe, when it works”

“I don’t want to”

“Bother us? No bother It’s right inside, isn’t it?”

“Yes Yes”

“I ”

“Stay just a ether and were putting their hands out, like hypnotists or tight rope walkers, at her

“It’s late”

“You want to win him, don’t you?”

“Yes”

“All right then Directions on the bottle Get it, sister” And a e dreareen bottle and it rested, glittering, on the porch railing Alice reached up her hand in the ht “I don’t know”

“Try it,” whispered Nancy Jillet “Try it once, is all we ask It’s the answer to everything when you’re 18 Go on”