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I s hi at the water that rushed by over the rocks and around the bend

"I keep wondering what I' to feel when I'm face to face with my father for the first time Do you think we'll look like each other?"

"You'd have to look so like him"

"Yeah, but some people look so much like either their mother or their father Amber looks like she was cloned from her mother, for example"

"What about me?"

"You look a lot like your mother, but you have your father's eyes and those little freckles" he added laughing He turned serious for a uess if soot to be a little alike It won't be like ht?"

"Hardly" I said but he still looked very nervous about it

"He wanted ht about ot involved in a whole new life and just didn't kno to coot a half brother or half sister out there Maybe two of each!"

"You h, did he?"

"No But ht he shouldn't"

"You said Suze was his woman, but he didn't call her his wife"

"No, he didn't, but he could have been married and divorced or lost his wife House painter" he ht? I mean that he does manual labor, works with his hands I ith my hands"

"You're very intelligent too Harley You're not just same laborer"

He raised his eyebrows and shook his head at me

"The only reason I graduated was because of your help Summer"