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Or any of this. She laughed weakly. Gideon8 OCTOBERLast night I dreamed of her, or of someone like her. You need to get some rest.

I know you, Gideon. She was going toexplain why she'd left us without a word of goodbye, why she'd takenevery picture of your sister with her, why she'd stayed away for nearlytwenty years . Fine, Fran, he said. And when theygathered his things together, she was even more touched to see thathe'd managed the shopping he'd gone out to do.