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75 We'll Be Ready

75 We'll Be Ready

(Jayden)

"It's so complicated," she murmurs, her voice filled with pain.

"Tell me about what it was like, before you got to live with Anne," I urged gently.

Her shaking increases, her breath hitching with each sob.

"I got you. I think you need to talk about this, get it out. Otherwise, you are going to explode," I say in encouragement

"He was awful. I was his meal ticket. If he wanted stuff off people, I had to go too. Said they'd feel sorry for me. I had to go beg on the streets, and if I didn't get enough, I never got to eat anything," she confesses, her voice raw with emotion.

"Jesus, Winona, I'm so sorry you went through that," I say, my anger towards her father burning hotter.

"School saved me. I knew an education was my only way out, and we had a school breakfast program. I got to eat there," she continues, her voice a little stronger now.

I ask, not sure if I want to hear

ruined it. So did he, but he found a way to benefit from the misfortune of being lumbered with

ask to be born," I say, feeling a surge of

"She

fault that she was such a waste of a person. She couldn't get out even if she'd wanted to, I don't

and glance out on the deck. The kids are still

"Where is she now?"

assume her body gave up

onto my lap. I want her to

up. Those kids, I can't let them go back there," she says,

He didn't for all those years. Now, here he is. It's not a coincidence," she says, her voice

words on board this time. She's right. I have to listen to what she's saying. These kids aren't lying or pretending. They don't have an

staff. I'm not sure how he found you, but I'm damn well going to find out," I say, my voice filled with

75 WWII Be Ready

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she went on vacation last time, she

is Abby's life, Winona's life, and if I know anything

as Bobby is now. I hate to think how he'll end up if he goes back to him," she

don't care if I have to take care of

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