...er how to cook or sew, or insisted that she clean her teeth and wash every day. And on weeknights she often had to get meals for herself. She crept al... ...so many books, and she saw Lacey’s sad face as she returned her books that day. 8 SUSAN BRACKEN “My dear, you’re getting to be a big girl. Come with ... ...s best friend, Mario, was driv- ing. They had been on a wilderness camping trip. Roger’s thoughts were fixed on how soon he could get a car and get hi... ...like that on their very first vacation? She had gone to work as usual each day and she’d kept thinking things like I will stop and get groceries on th... ... and the house had been re-mortgaged just months before. Why? To pay for a trip to Europe? “And there are taxes to pay every quarter,” he’d added sole... ...when he died accidentally.” This news explains so much: why they went on a trip, why they bor- rowed money to do it, why they were holding hands as th... ...noon, Lacey sat on the sofa sipping a glass of wine. A stack of photograph albums was piled on the coffee table in front of her. She had laboriously c...