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"Oh'" I looked down quickly, pretending interest in my food

"How did Mother get to know you, to recoram that set you up here with Grandmother Hudson? I never even knewl

ike that The closest she gets toRepublican teas"

I continued to look down I felt like a spider, weaving a web of lies Only instead of soht I would surely catch er did I have to weave?

"I don't knohat she has told you," I said cautiously

"Practically nothing I know she convinced Grandive you a try and Grandmother apparently liked you from the start"

"It was just a prograan One day I was called into the principal's office and your uess you can call it that Next thing I kneas recommended The rest you know"

"I just can't figure out when my mother did all that She actually went to a school?"

"Maybe it wasn't all that raood idea"

"Too many lanced at hiht through theht

"I remember how surprised ulped his beer now: it obviously made him nervous to talk about me too "What surprised hierand you in

"My grand to see her,maids No

salesperson would dare come within one hundred yards of this property"

"She was sick She needed someone else in the house," I explained

"A teenager? I kno Granders She used to say she would have had to hire a lion ta person today"