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"Heather!" I heard hihter's nae doorway It put an even colder chill into the house As I s off tome

I practically charged through the front door and down the hallway to my room where I quickly stripped off the foolish dress and threw it on the floor Then I sat on my bed and tried to catch my breath

Was it great s? I wondered I didn't have much of a chance to think about it My door was thrust open so hard, it strained on its hinges Boggs stood there, gaping in at me I covered myself quickly with my hands

"Don't go saying anything nasty about Mr Endfleld," he warned

Then he closed the door

"Oh, Mama," I moaned "If you only knew the truth about what you hoped was ht have left me to take my chances in the hell we at least understood"

13

Seize the Moment

Of course I was quite nervous about serving

Great-uncle Richard and Great-aunt Leonora breakfast the followingI was emotionally exhausted and almost immediately fell into a comatose state the an to toss and turn so s and arms actually ached when I

woke It felt like I had been swi miles

I don't think I really drea up, I flitted in and out of nightiant crib I wore only a diaper Greatuncle Richard was a giant reaching in for me His hands looked enorer, there were s as I dreas, if he heard it, didn't co and sawin a forest in which tree after tree turned into Boggs, his arreat, thick branches

After I rose and went to the bathroolassy and still asleep, the lids drooping like flags on a day with no breeze I didn't have the energy to h h the hallway to the kitchen as if the top half of me was yet not awake

"Looks like I'm the only one chirpy this mornin'," Mrs Chester coet yourself good and sloshed yesterday?" she asked me

"Sloshed? You mean, drunk?"