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"Then I thought, we're too much like relatives

anyway and that's why you never look at me like you

look at a Chase Taylor And then I thought, we're just like your mother and Roy and maybe that's the family

curse you tell me your mother fears"

"We're not like that Harley We've been

together a long tiht up to

think ere brother and sister It's a lot different; if

you heard the way Mommy described those days,

you'd understand why Don't think that" I said "I don't want to" he replied s "That's for

sure" He paused "Another confession" he began

"When I saw you and Chase in this boat on your

birthday I was so jealous I could hardly breathe That

hy I pushed him off the raft and started the

fight It wasn't to defend A" "I think I knew that," I said "Does it make you

mad?"