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"Wow That is fast What aboutyou knoho?" he asked

"I've written him a letter"

"I'll be thinking about you" he said "And that's not a promise; it's a fact"

"Okay, Randall Thank you," I said, s

"Rain You're really the nicest girl I ever met I'm sorry about what I did to ruin it"

"That's another thing I'ies You don't have to h to owe each other any proies,"

I said I was sorry I sounded so cold, buton empty for hours and hours

"I know," he said "But I e had Have a good trip, Rain"

"Thank you"

"Bye," he said "I'll be thinking of you next song I sing"

"Bye:' I said and placed the receiver in the cradle I truly wondered if ould ever see each other again, or just beinto shadows

Boggs went by with lanced at me and continued on

I could heardown the stairway I took one final look at the big house It was really never a ho and dead I reat-uncle at the door and we all walked out to the waiting Rolls Boggs had already put their luggage in the Wet He held the door open for theot in quickly I looked at him and then followed No one spoke Moments later, ere on our way to the airport

We all slept for most of the trip across the Atlantic When we arrived in Rich into his arms so we could coreat sorrow His thick, bushy eyebroe

re turned in toward each other as the ripples of deep sadness forhtened and he smiled