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cast a spell for us."

"I don't know, Beau. It's all happening so fast.

It's complicated."

"Talk it over with Paul. It's right; it's good. It's

what was meant to be, finally," he said.

After we hung up, I stood there, my heart still

pounding very hard and quickly. The possibilities

loomed before me as well as the dangers. I would

have to assume my sister's identity, become Gisselle,

but we were so unalike, really. Could I do it well

enough to fool people and be with Beau forever?

Love, if it's strong enough, I thought, gives you the power to do things beyond your imagination. Maybe

this was true for us now.

I took a deep breath and then returned to the

study and told Paul what had happened and what Beau

had proposed. He sat there with amazing calm and

listened as I gushed the story and the fantastic

proposal. Then he got up and went to the window. He

stood there for the longest time.

"You'll never stop loving him," he muttered

bitterly. "I was a fool to think otherwise. If I only had

listened to my mother. . ." He sighed deeply and

turned.

"I can't help the way I feel about him, Paul." He nodded and looked very thoughtful for a

moment. "Maybe you have to live with him to see

what sort of a man he really is. Maybe then you'll

understand the difference between him and me." "Paul, I love you for what you've done for Pearl

and me and your devotion to me, but we've been

living only half a marriage. Besides, we once agreed

that if either of us could have someone else, someone

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