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There were pictures of all four of the and happy Ray was holding the little girl, and the woman had her hands on Bobby’s shoulders Without any obvious eous, just less drareen The daughter’s eyes were a deep, rich brown, but except for that, she looked remarkably like her mother The pictures jued y, or maybe favorites were in front A picture of Ray with his wife entwined in a hug, both of the, wasn’t a professional photo, but it had been blown up and placed in the center of it all The fa suits still wet froleaers in that photo, and both Ray and his ere in great shape They looked like a happy, healthy, outdoorsy, athletic fa up—Christ ribbons, Bobby in football gear with his tea a trophy It took me a few minutes to realize one of the cheerleaders in the shot was the daughter Then there was a photo of Ray and the girl jogging with a leopard bounding alongside the back with her head against the leopard’s side, its head turned so that his furred cheek was against her black curls The leopard had bright yellow eyes The photos of just Ray and the children seemed not to care if Bobby was in human form or animal I’d never seen any family treat someone’s beast form so casually I liked that a lot, but I also liked that there were almost no professionally posed shots in the entire collection of photos Maybe professionals had taken so, moments of people’s lives frozen and happy They seemed more like real memories than the stiff family photos that marched up the wall by the stairs in my father’s house It made me think about the photos that Jean-Claude wanted for the wedding Was there such a thing as unposed, natural-looking professional photos?

“They looked happy,” I said, at last realizing I’d probably looked at the photos longer than I would have at most crime scenes “Do you knohat happened to the wife?”

“Her naela Warren”

I frowned “Why does that name sound familiar?”

“I’ photo,” he said

“Did you?” I asked

He looked almost embarrassed “One ofrole in an action flick”

“Oh, yeah, The Model and the Spy or so like that”

“Model Spy,” Newman said

“Why was it her one and only starring role?” I asked

“It became a cult favorite, but when it was first released, apparently it didn’t make that much money”

I studied the wedding photo again; she wore more makeup in that one than in any of the other photos “I should have at least thought I knew her from somewhere”

“You weren’t a little boy, so the fact that she got the cover of the swimsuit issue twice probably escaped you,” he said

I smiled “Didn’t she put out an album while she was a model?”

“She did, and she wrote all the songs on it, plus an extra song that she wrote for her boyfriend at the time, Tucker B”