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I went into my room and then went to theand looked out over the lake toward Uncle Roy's house where he was in bed, e turns and twists his life had taken

Secrets hovered in all the shadows between our two houses When the sun ca to be discovered, to be reborn in the light of day

What great secret had been passed on to me? What noaited in my heart?

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Burying the Past

I felt like so her

breath under water until I learned it was definite that I was not pregnant What an added horror that would have been Mommy looked just as relieved as I was Daddy had become very quiet about all of it He was like someone who had been forced to s sour milk and didn't want to talk about it or hear any references to it for fear it wouldrandfather had taken care of all that had followed

Moular piano teacher, to come to the house and ith me twice a week I practiced the clarinet on o to ith him every day He wanted me to help out at the office, but I wasn't ready for it It was more comfortable to stay close to ho

Late afternoons I sat with Moether One day see about as if we didn't want to wake up the bitterat our feet

Grandan and Grandfather Grant caoing to hate every an her visit by acting as though I had died

"You poor, poor child," she said as soon as she set eyes on irl"

"She's hardly a little girl anymore Mother," Mommy said "And I don't mean because of what happened She's sixteen and very mature and responsible"

Grandfather Grant went off with Daddy to the office and left us in the living room

"Yes, yes I know that What did the doctor say?" Grandan asked Mommy

"She said she was fine There are no