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"Anyone else would probably have come to a point where she was unable to make another decision Su wheel of my specially equipped van even when I approached an ordinary intersection and ht or left Surely so choice I thought The only reason why I didn't freeze up was because I kept hearingafraid," Moeddon"

I could certainly understand Mommy's fear and often wondered if such a curse could be passed on to me That was Mommy's worst worry, too

"What if the strongest, biggest thing I gave you was my own bad luck?" Mommy suddenly said, as if she had read my mind

"That's silly, Moh I wasn't sure "There's no such thing as being destined to have bad luck It's all just chance and no one's to blame You couldn't be the cause of anyone's trouble" I insisted and did so with such veheh and proain

But, she would She couldn't help it She was carrying a sack full of guilt

She was especially pursued by theton DC-- where Mo her was the car accident that had killed her half brother, raph and ell aware of how handsome he had been and howho Moan Mommy's real mother, suffered a terrible nervous breakdown after Uncle Brody's accident She almost committed suicide

Aunt Alison, Uncle Brody's sister, still harbored ill feeling toward Mouised it well and was at least civil when she was here, not that she was that often Recently, she had gone through a nasty divorce, her husband accusing her of being an adulteress and not only with one other lover either! That, I wasn't told however That I overheard

In our house the walls don't keep secrets behind them too well

Anyone would think Aunt Alison should feel sorry for Moic when she was thrown from her horse Then she had suffered horribly under the hands of her bizarre and an's sister For a while Mo about it She said it revived nighting all this bad luck She actually thought she deserved it and if it wasn't for my father Austin who had beco aith herself in this very lakeserenely gazed upon

We had filled this lake with tears enough, it seehter and sunshine, and if it took er I was happy to do it

From where we looked out over the lake to make our wishes, we could see Uncle Roy Mo ashutter on his house After he had left the aran's real estate and construction develop my nanny Glenda Robinson, as an unwed mother with a child only a year older than I was at the time, a boy nareed to marry him Mommy decided they should build their home on our property