After Aggie left the morning Polly told me that she had always wondered if I might have had a deep secret that I was afraid to tell anybody about. My ...dread was that someone might find out about my dad and me. But Polly gave me some sense of hope when she said, ‘I also have a secret Alice that I never wanted anybody to find out about. Since you and I are closer than anyone else in the sorority though I think I can trust you with it. Maybe if I tell you what happened to me you might be able to. .. the counsellor made a small note to call Duncan in so he could find out what had changed since their meeting.But for now, he had the matter of the worried Christian girl in front of him.“And so you must understand, sir, it’s not that I want to. Or ... well, maybe it is. No, you see, really, the problem is... -”“Hush,” Mr. Foster said, his thin lips widening to reveal slightly pointed teeth. “I completely onderstand. I’m a man of the church as well, you see.”“You are?”“Of course!” Reaching. ”This time I checked my flights carefully. There was a new hollowness inside me, along with the cold and a feeling of getting old all too quickly. In Minneapolis, I found a place near the gate where I could plug in the phone and computer. I logged onto the Internet and looked up the brand of the sexy boots Peg had been wearing when I met her. I ordered a new pair in her size and had them shipped to her.I’d been sitting in the gate area for nearly an hour, having heard the announcement that the. And so I kissed him, his lips tasting like Nirvana, like happiness and euphoria and paradise and heaven all rolled into one chest-aching feeling. My eyes pricked with tears as he took my face in his hands, his fingers slipping into my hair, kissing back so tenderly that I felt it in my center, right where the little girl inside of me resided—the girl stunted by the abuse, by the pain that had been inflicted by the foster parents she should have been able to trust. That little girl was always.