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“Not everything, Carrie”

“Well, lots of things, anyway”

“That was before you duie,” he says sarcastically Then he adds quickly, “Don’t be upset I’ie and I divorced, everyone would take sides Maggie got all our friends”

This h “I’ve missed you”

“Yeah I guess I’ve sort of er, puts a prewrapped piece of cheese on top, opens a bun, and places the two pieces on either side

“You want onions and peppers?”

“Sure” I fool around with the bottles of er “Walt I have so to tell you It’s really horrible, and you’re probably going to want to kill me, but don’t, okay?”

He lifts the haie is pregnant”

“She is?” I ask in shock

“Hoould I know?” he asks, sliding the cheeseburger onto a plastic plate and pushing it toward me

I stare down at the burger “Walt I know”

“So she is pregnant,” he says, resigned, as if this was always going to be a foregone conclusion

“Not about Maggie” I take a bite of the burger “About you”

He wipes the counter with a cloth “I can assure you I’nant”

“Coer betweento tell him, I have to do it now “Don’t be ht you were in some kind of trouble And then Sebastian—”