Lucy—
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held the chalk—
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tight, afraid to finish and go in.
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like a baton, pulling it over the sidewalk, a maze because she—
still hurt from last time he was here—
• two days ago.
• And she had seen his truck parked down the street like he was trying to hide that he was visiting her
was—
• scared.
• warm in the sunlight.
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drew walls, a maze that only she could solve. Sweat stuck her dress to her skin. She—
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wanted to go in, but it smelled like meatloaf inside.
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was afraid that—
Tommy might be—
• staying for dinner. She would have to sit across from him and look him in the eye and say yes sir and no sir. Lucy missed
her daddy. He would have called Tommy scum and kicked him with his army boots, but Daddy was dead.
• inside with her mommy. He might spend the night, might sneak into Lucy’s room around two and pull back the covers.
her mom would be angry—
• she ruined her dress.
• that she had gotten into a fight at—
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school when a boy—