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“Cut what out? You cannot possiblylike a cross between Mary Poppins and Velvet Brown”

“That’s exactly the point I’… Who?”

“Mary Poppins The nanny with necklines up to her chin and sleeves to her wrists”

“I knoho Mary Poppins is Who’s Velvet Brown?”

Cassie blew a strand of dark hair off her forehead “Jeez, it’s sweltering in here Turn the AC up, will you?”

“It’s up as high as it goes”

“Yeah, well, you need to buy a new unit”

“My landlady needs to buy a new unit, not me And you didn’t answer my question Who’s Velvet Brown?”

“National Velvet,” Cassie said briskly, tugging her hands free

“Huh?”

“Don’t you watch old movies?”

“No And will you please stop dragging stuff from my closet? I told you, I’m not—”

“National Velvet Elizabeth Taylor Do you knoho she is? A gorgeous actress She was , wonderful horse…”

Dawn sank down on the edge of the mattress “I’m lost,” she said, “totally lost”

“I told you, it’s a movie Makes me weepy whenever I see it, Velvet and her horse…”