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“You asked,” Peabody shot back “If she had to be told, I don’t see why you shoved it in her face the way you did Why you couldn’t have found a way to soften it”

“Soften it? Her father was fucking her You tell me how you soften that You tell me how you put that in a pretty box with a bow on it”

She turned on Peabody, and like Carry’s, Eve’s eyes were ravaged “What the hell do you know? What do you know about it with your big, sprawling, happy, Free-Ager faathers around the dinner table with clean faces and chirpy news of the day”

She couldn’t breathe, couldn’t draw in enough air She was strangling But she couldn’t stop the words

“When Daddy caht, he didn’t crawl into bed with you, did he, and put his sweaty hands all over you Fathers don’t jairls in your tidy world”

She strode off the elevator, through the lobby, and out to the street, while Peabody stood stiff with shock

Eve paced the sidewalk, barely restrained herself fro the duet of white poodles and the droid that walked the, a rocket blast that screamed inside her skull She could feel her hands treht fists in her pockets

“Dallas”

“Don’t,” she warned Peabody “Keep back a minute”

She could walk it off, she proe of the fury that made her want to scream and pound and rip And when she had, all that was left was the headache and the sick ut

Her face was pale but composed when she walked up to Peabody “My personal reize for them”

“It’s not necessary”

“It is In my opinion, it was also necessary to be cruel up there It doesn’t make me feel any better about it But you’re not here to be a punching bag for my foul moods”

“That’s okay I’m kind of used to it”

Peabody tried a saped with horror when Eve’s eyes filled “Oh, jeez Dallas”