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Chapter 5

“So wait a minute.”This was Tracy.“You knew your younger brother was a dick and you knew that Angela was gay and you knew that they were together and you didn’t do anything about it except pinefor Angela?”Now,this was pretty cruel but on the whole accurate and it was said with such a combination of bewilderment and kindness that there was no way for Paula to take offense in any by it,and all she could say was,“Yeah,that’s pretty much it.”

One Month Later:August

It was platonic in August when Paula moved into Angela’s spare room.It would be a pain because Paula had to drive over an hour each way to her job in southwestern Fairfield County;she was givingup her apartment there on August 31.Stamford was at the outer reaches of the neighborhood in which she and Angela grew up—Darien—and she felt oppressed when she was there.