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"Ha, ha" Gently she pushes a dry shirt over Turtle’s damp head, which sh the holes

The cooler unit in thethuedly, over-worked but useless in the daht of her hair; it re on her neck She yanks it over her shoulder and begins corralling it into a braid

"Why do we have to have this vacation?" Turtle asks

Taylor feels gooseflesh rise on the skin of her bare arht now"

"Why?"

Taylor exa to look unconcerned It would be so simple to lie: Jax decided to paint the whole house purple "Do you reet your adoption papers?"

Turtle nods, and Taylor doesn’t doubt that she reo Taylor finds it s she witnessed before she could talk

"We had to go on that trip because the social workers said we needed those papers so you could stay with o on another trip, to ether"

"A trip to where?"

"Well, that’s the part I don’t know yet Soo?"

"Sesame Street"

"Good idea," Taylor says