oldest, an adorable brown-skinned girl with lots of curly hair and a pretty face. “But you two can’t. I know,” he continued, “I know this is hard to hear. But you might as well learn now how the real world works.” Something told Betsey these girls already knew how the real world worked. While Billy blathered on, the middle girl sat her younger half-sister down on the bench beside Billy and abruptly walked off. She moved over to the bushes and flowers that had been planted around the yard wall, head down, like she was searching for something. And while she looked, Billy talked to Charles’s
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