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relationship have to bring such sadness? Why couldn't

Cary be happy for me? I was near tears and had to

turn away from May before she saw ,

because a few moments later, Loretta appeared to say

it was time we came in to eat

It was as wonderful a brunch as ever, with

chunks of lobster in Alfredo sauce, shrimp cocktail,

delicious home fries, salads filled with almost every

vegetable ireat desserts,

including my favorite, the multilayered, multicolored

petit fours

Afterward, the

the beach, Judge Childs and Grandpa lighting up their

cigars They took Cary along with Daddy, and

Mommy, May, and I were left behind with Grandma