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“But in thefor you”

“Now listen, if you need us, we’ll be at the Pool Club right after this”

“Hellenor!” Judy screamed from the just-opened doorway

“I’ll leave your name at the door,” Suzette hissed

“I gotta go,” Pandy said desperately Her friends! How she missed them And yes, she wouldthing Where she would come back to life

CHAPTER NINETEEN

BY ENTERING this area, you agree to be photographed and recorded You acknowledge that your ihout the universe into all eternity including, but not lie that you have no privacy, at least not by any current definition of privacy

A dark, velvety htly perfuh the air Standard party space reconfigured into a fantasyland where woood ones Where they celebrated each other in the way the world— for their strength and their courage and their hard work and their contributions But not, godda the men—tried to tell them was their only value; namely, their beauty and their ability to bear children

“And now, it’s time for the Woman Warrior of the Year Awards,” the announcer said

The rest was a blur Pandy wasn’t sure howpushed toward the stairs by two e Except that this ti of which required every skill, it seemed, but laziness to survive

Like balance

Standing with her are er had told her to do: focus solely on as in front of her Na around and around on the center of the platfor cake

A spotlight lit up the path to Monica, as beckoning, Come withto be together again…

Pandy took a couple of tentative steps forward and heard a shter froht her back to earth She was on a revolving platform and she was about to receive an award for her sister, PJ Wallis, because she, PJ Wallis, was dead

She ht Focus on as in front of her…