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"Saan She didn't even ask about Mother

"I'ht Mother here in an a but fluff?"

"I was just trying to say so nice," she wailed "I'm scared, too"

She sat sulking between Saton came out to see us I could tell fros were not good

"She has indeed fallen into a coht be for the best," he added "Her cancer has spread"

"Can't you just have it cut out like the last time?" Belinda cried

"I'one too far for any of that now"

Belinda began to sob Samuel put his arm around her and she dropped her head to his shoulder and cried more freely

"How long will this continue?" I asked the doctor Daddy was just staring at him

"Days, maybe a week It's hard to say at this point, Olivia," he replied "We'll do all we can to keep her fro any pain," he promised He turned to Daddy "I'm sorry, Winston"

Daddy widened and brightened his eyes as if they were two shts he had just turned on

"Yes, thank you," he said and then looked to me

"We'll look in on her and then go hoton, his eyes questioning

"Yes, that would be fine," the doctor said as if anything we did now had little consequence anyway

Belinda couldn't stop crying so she remained in the lobby with Samuel Daddy and I went into the room The nurse stepped away fronosis; she had seen patients near death before, and there was no false hope in her face, only a slight smile of sympathy