He came to speak, shaking violently, and he put his arm around me to steady himself, and I put my hand on his shoulder, and he said into the microphone: She gave me the world. I said Yes. ’ I turned, still trembling so badly that I could scarcely stand upright, and I saw the inevitable lights in Aunt Queen's window. I would have to tell Allen to sweep it out.
You have been too good. It's far older than hers, and you won't be bound to her so very much. And goddamn it, I can't stop loving him, feeling I'm betraying him, and he feeds off that! The blinking of the lights had stopped. I wanted to live in this house with Michael and Rowan and Mona forever.
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