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She still didn’t know the answers, but for the first time, she could see it: a future with Max and a couple of kids, with Sunday dinners that included her father, sober, maybe with a funny, wise-cracking, kind woman like Carol on hisarm.
“You going to give me a hard time?” her fatherasked.
“What? No! Why would I do that?” sheasked.
“You were smiling just then,” he said. “Thought maybe you were going to be a smart-ass.”
She shook her head. “I was thinking about somethingnice.”
“Good.” She looked up, surprised by the firmness in his voice. “You deserve to think nicethings.”
She swallowed around the lump in her throat andsmiled.
