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Silly money for a piece of art made from old maps, perhaps, but not silly money for a single mother of three. She sells a couple a week. It’s enough, just about.
I’ve never heard something called “silly money” 😭😭😂 MONEY IS MONEY U MAKE
still hopelessly in love with his wife after twenty-five years of marriage.
Awwww thats cute normal relationships last a week and that is long 😭
The air today is cold and blowing in hard, bringing with it a veil of icy droplets from the surface of the sea. But the man is wearing only a shirt and jeans. No jacket. No bag. No hat or scarf.
The poodle is her parents’. She is eighteen years old and should be dead by rights.
“Come on, you shitbags!” She strides across the beach and makes a grab for Griff. Griff thinks a game has been suggested and darts playfully away. She goes after Hero, who runs away from her. Meanwhile poor Sadie is being dragged about by her scrawny neck, barely able to stand upright,
LOLLL MY DOG DOES THE SAME THING 😭😭😭😭😭😂 PLUS I CALL HER A DUMBASS ALL THE TIME 💀
“Fine,” she says, “fine. You stay here. See how you get on without me. Go and beg for scraps outside the fucking butcher’s. Have a good life.” The dogs stop and look at her. She turns and walks away. “Do you want some dogs?” she calls to the man, who is still sitting in the rain. “Seriously? Do you want them? You can have them.”
LOLLL 😭THE FACT I BE DOING THIS IS CRAZY 🗿😆
She loves dogs (she’s the type to let them kiss her on her mouth)
Ewwwwwww I can’t do that my dog be licking her own PISS ALL THE TIME AND HER BREATH BE STINKING TOO no way im letting a GERM LICK MY FACE
“You gave him a jacket. You’re already getting involved.” “That was just an act of simple human kindness.” “Yes,” says Derry. “Exactly.”
She can’t be here knowing that he is there.
Me every time i see a homeless person outside in freezing cold temperatures just makes me want to give them a blanket or something to warm up to
“I must be mad. Well, actually, I am mad.
LOLLLL
“I live in chaos. I have three very loud, rude children and three untrained dogs and my house is a mess. So don’t come with me expecting a sanctuary. It’s far from it.”
😂😂😂😭💀 ONLY CHAOS IN THIS FAMILY
She could tell that the woman was doing something else as she talked to her, flipping through a magazine, maybe, or filing her nails.
LOL
Bad highlights, he thinks, and then wonders how he has an opinion on such things. Is he a hairdresser?
SHE IS ONE LOLLLLLL
“We went through your pockets, remember?
💀💀💀 lemme go ahead and grab some coins outta ur pocket
“And yes, they’re all mine. I’m not a foster parent. Sit down, for goodness’ sake.”
LOLL 😂😂😭😂💀
“I don’t know what his name is. And he doesn’t know what his name is. He’s lost his memory.”
reminds me of that vid that goes “what is ur name” and the guy goes “Yu” and the guy who asked the question goes “NO NOT ME WHO ARE YU.” And Yu goes “YES IM YU” and the guy goes “NO WHAT IS YOUR NAME.” And YU goes “I IM YUU” and then other guys comes out and he asks “what’s ur name?” The guy says “IM MI” and the guys “YES YOU WHATS UR NAME” and the goes “IM MII” ah that’s funny
As if she’s starting to wonder why he’s in her house. After all, he could be anyone.
“He’s forty,” she says. She can see the policewoman’s eyebrow arch, just a fraction. “And you’re?” “I’m twenty-one,” she says. It’s no big deal, she wants to shout. Nineteen years. In a life of maybe ninety years. So what?
WOAHHH THAT… IS ILLEGAL NO JUST NO. WHY JUST LIKE WHY?! 😦
he might actually be missing and not in another woman’s bed.
💀💀💀💀💀💀
“Wow,” she says again. “Wow.” “Yes,” says Lily. “It was very wow.”
WOW YES VERY WOW 🤩
big scared man in a teenager’s hoodie.
Hm 💀😭
“you kids. You’ve got no human decency, have you? What do they teach you at school these days?” “Er, about pedophiles and con men and voyeurs and rapists and—”
😂😂😂
ridiculous child thought she was fat. But still.
LOLLL 💀😭 they are just being honest
Since they both became, well, ill is how she prefers to refer to it—rather than demented, loop-the-loop, batshit nuts—they
LOLLLL 💀💀💀💀💀
rises with just enough time to make sure she doesn’t leave the house naked.
AYOOOO
“Have you never been married, then?” She laughs drily. “No. Never managed to snare a man.”
LOLL SNARE A MANNN 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀😭😭
He has a mother. A mother with arms! He smiles and says, “I just remembered something! I just remembered my mother’s arms.”
MOTHER WITH ARMS!!! 🤩
“Fried?” she says. “Scrambled?” “I have no idea,” he says. “You decide.”
So you can see that he was happy and not about to run away from me.”
OOOOOOO OKKKK 😭💀
your husband doesn’t technically exist.” “I beg your pardon?” “His passport is fake, Mrs. Monrose. There is no Carl John Robert Monrose.”
OHHH SHITT 😦 WELP THAT GRANDPA U LOVED IS FAKEEEEEE das tuff 💀
But now Kirsty was fifteen, Gray was seventeen, and Rabbit Cottage was virtually the last place on earth either of them wanted to be.
She was almost as tall as him now, his sister, all legs and hair, not quite grown into herself but almost there. The resemblance between them was startling enough, he hoped, for it to be obvious that the gawky, scruffy girl in a damp waterproof jacket, patterned nylon sweater, and faded baggy jeans walking alongside him was not romantically connected to him in any way. She was a slow developer. She’d worn her hair in a plait down her back until only recently and still didn’t wear makeup. But she was suddenly quite desirable—he could see that—raw and new like a half-blossomed flower,
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She’d had her braces off a few weeks ago and was celebrating by eating as many hard, chewy sweets as she could.
SOON TO BE ME LOL WHAT A COINCIDENCE 😭
Her face, devoid of makeup, natural, unlike so many girls his age. No earrings.
She’d seen something entirely different pass over him then. A wash of fear and anger, gone before she’d had a chance to analyze it, leaving her wondering if she’d imagined it.
She pushes the thought of him from her mind. Men are no longer on her agenda. Her children are her priority now.
Goes back to thinking about “Frank” 💀
Alice doesn’t argue. The basis of her friendship with Derry is that Derry is always right.
She scouts for a note of some kind, but there’s nothing. Sadness plummets through her; she feels heavy-limbed with disappointment. And then she feels concern, a burn of anxiety and fear. She thinks of his hazel eyes, his woolly schoolboy hair, his utter vulnerability. She cannot imagine him out there alone. She really cannot.
Alice has alr fallen in love 💀💀
A barley-twist pole, a pastel-colored horse, a girl with brown hair; she goes up, she goes down, she’s smiling and waving and then she’s gone.
And who is the girl on the carousel, the smiling, beautiful girl with chestnut hair, lost in her moment, oblivious to his eyes upon her?
KIRSTY I THINK
As children they’d spent their days down there, picking their way across the slimy rocks in plastic boots and sou’westers. But now that they were older they preferred to take towels and sun cream, a windbreak, and folding chairs and walk a quarter of a mile across town to the wider sandy beach below the high street.
UMMMM I STILL ENJOY BEING IN THE WATER BEING IN A LOUNGE CHAIR IS BORING SWIMMING IS FUNNER
Kirsty in a black halter-neck bikini top and a denim skirt.
I wish I could’ve wore bikini tops 🤧😭🗿
“Looks like a creep to me,” said Gray. Pam looked at him admonishingly. “No need to take everything so seriously, Graham.” “I’m not ‘taking things seriously.’ I’m just expressing an opinion. I just think he looks like a creep. That’s all.”
Me when I tell my opinion 😭
passing within inches of Kirsty as he did so and Gray had to control an impulse to stick out his foot and trip him over.
GOOD ONE should of done it honestly 😭
His mother put her hand to her collarbone and said, in a voice that Gray had never heard her use before, “Why yes, it is.”
MY MOM DOES THE SAME THING SHE GOT LIKE A BUNCH OF VOICES I AINT EVER HEARD HER TALK LIKE 😭
thinking that there was no such thing as free tea, that there was bound to be some price to be paid and his family were too stupid to see it.
Indeed
She does not know this world. She only knows Carl.
Awww but carl fake 🥹😗
It is not in her nature to smile without cause. Smiles are for friends and babies and jokes and family. Not for strangers on trains.
😂😂😂😂 always smile for a stranger maybe it can make they’re day which idk is true but why not 🤷🏽♀️😗
“Fine. But please don’t make a mess.”
No promises 😗😭
There is no mention of the empty apartment with the flickering light.
