HER DAUGHTER LAUGHED AT HER HANDMADE QUILT

and the cars out on the Hutchinson River Parkway.

Walter helped Megan to a chair.

I went to the window and looked at my forty acres.

After

She moved in with me three weeks later. The closet with the fireproof cabinet stayed locked, but I gave her the key the night the baby came, a girl, eight pounds one ounce, screaming like she owned the place.

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