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and then they were just
gone.
It could take days to shake the feeling off,
sometimes.
And this girl in the garden, under the apple tree, she looked
she looked like Laura.
Exactly like Laura.
Laura was Ginny and Jacek’s daughter. She was grown now. She’d be –
thirty-three.
And this girl was Laura
at that age
to a T.
Different clothes, of course.
But the shape of her, the way she carried herself.
It was
Laura.
Ginny remembered Laura carrying herself
like that.
The look had come into her overnight.
They’d seen the woman in the girl.
It had been sudden.
They’d seen her realising what kind of woman she would be, and
playing with the part. Dressing up
in different poses.
They’d seen her wishing herself
out of reach.
She’d wanted away.
That had been obvious.
Ginny could remember wanting away
from her own mother
