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over the place looking for me," she said. "People will
forget or want to forget, especially after my mother
moves away."
"How can you be so sure she will?"
She smiled. "I know my mother. Believe me,
she's not going to be happy wallowing in this too
long. She's very aware of how people, especially men,
look at her. What available unmarried man is going to
want to get seriously involved with a woman whose
daughter is being hunted by the police for killing her
husband? Someday, years and years from now, I'll
ring her doorbell wherever she is and give her a heart
attack," she said.
"You mean it?"
"Not really a heart attack. She'll be so shocked
she might faint, but that's all. She'll have to take me
in, give me money, do whatever I want her to do to
help me, or I'll tell her new husband everything. I'm
sure whomever she meets will not know the story. My
mother is an expert when it comes to hiding the truth.
You know that."
"I don't know that."
"What do you mean, you don't?" she snapped at
me. "I've told you everything, how she's buried her
head in the sand, how she did the same thing with my
real father. I've told you."
"Oh, yes, you have," I said.
She relaxed, looked at herself in the mirror, and
then glanced at me. "You know, if we had gone
through with our plan exactly as you suggested, you
