speaking in a soft voice so no one else would hear the truth of what happened to the characters I’d spent years thinking about.
He’d said he couldn’t tell me except in person, and then invited me to Amsterdam.
I explained this to Mom, and then said, “I have to go.”
“Hazel, I love you, and you know I’d do anything for you, but we don’t—we don’t have the money for international travel,
and the expense of getting equipment over there —love, it’s just not—” “Yeah,” I said, cutting her off.
I realized I’d been silly even to consider it. “Don’t worry about it.”
But she looked worried. “It’s really important to you, yeah?” she asked, sitting down, a hand on my calf.
It would be pretty amazing,” I said, “to be the only person who knows what happens besides him.
“That would be amazing,” she said. “I’ll talk to your father.”
“No, don’t,” I said. “Just, seriously, don’t spend any money on it please. I’ll think of something.”
It occurred to me that the reason my parents had no money was me.
I’d sapped the family savings with Phalanxifor copays, and Mom couldn’t work
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