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Then, with complete and simple lucidity, the answer came to her.
Talk to John.
She
sat on his lap, hugged him hard
“I can barely breathe when I think about it. But we have to think about it.
he looked at her with a scared and profound sorrow
she’d never seen there before.
“I don’t know if...
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So far, they’d decided that she’d finish out the semester, avoid travel whenever possible, and they’d spend the entire summer at the Cape. They could only imagine as far as August.
they agreed to tell no one yet, except
for their ch...
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“I have to know if I have this. I want to get tested. Don’t you guys want to get tested?” asked Anna.
living with the anxiety of not knowing would be worse
than kn...
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even if I have it,” ...
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“I don’t want to know.” Lydia always did things differently.
I’m not pregnant.
Let’s hope my other test comes back negative as well.
they still weren’t home an hour after Alice had anticipated their arrival.
If
both negative, it would have been a quic...
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The odds crashed from remote to infinitesimal when they finally walked through the front door.
“I don’t have the mutation,” said Tom. “But I do,” said Anna.
Outwardly, at least, Anna appeared to be the strongest.
it didn’t surprise her.
Anna
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most mi...
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mo...
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“I’m going to go ahead with the in vitro.
they’re going to do a preimplantation genetic diagnosis on the embryos.
and only implant ones that are mu...
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Tom
looked pale, shaken, fragile.
“Who’s going to tell Lydia?” asked Tom. “I will,” said Anna.
Although closer to it every day, she was in no hurry to glimpse her future.
Nothing in particular happened that morning to fuel her curiosity or the courage to go have a look inside the Mount Auburn Manor Nursing Center. But today, she did.
“Are you looking for a parent?” “I am,” Alice lied.
her mother’s art nouveau butterfly necklace.
She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days.
Her mother
told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short did...
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Watchin...
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her m...
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said
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See, they have a beaut...
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only two out of the thirty-two residents are men.
Predictable routines are important.
Aside from Harold, Alice saw no other loved ones. No other husbands, no wives, no children or grandchildren, no friends.
“Do you have any residents here under the age of sixty?” “Oh no, the youngest is I think seventy.
average
