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A little, Katie confessed. She'd learned that Mr. Jonnie may come home on a twenty-four-hour pass. Laura knocked lightly, steeling herself for rejection.

Laura was tense when she at last turned into the dusty dirt road thatled up to the house. You must marry again, have your own family. She knew what Dennis wanted. Sometimes she felt guilty thatonce or twice every week she stayed late at the office.