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'" She sniffed in my ear, and I waited for the follow-up honkShe cried the same way as always; some things apparently didn't change "Fuck you, Edgar, for ****ing up what was actually a pretty good day "I don't care who you sleep with," I saidAll I want is to save Tom Riley's life This time she screamed so loud I had to hold the phone away from my ear"I'm not RESPONSIBLE for his life! WE'RE QUITS! Did you miss that?" Then, a little lower (but not much): "He's not even in StHe's on a cruise with his mother and that gayboy brother of his Suddenly I understood, or thought I didIt was as if I were flying over it, getting an aerial view 287 Maybe because I had contemplated suicide, cautioning myself all the while that it must absolutely louis vuitton denim purse look like an accidentNot so the insurance money would get paid, but so that my daughters wouldn't have to go through life with the stigma of everyone knowing - And that was the answer, wasn't it? "Tell him you knowWhen he gets back, tell him you know he's planning to kill himself "Why would he believe me?" "Because he is planning to Because he's mentally ill, and probably thinks he's going around with a sign that says PLANNING SUICIDE taped to his backTell him you know he's been ditching his antidepressantsYou do know that, right? For a factBut telling him to take them never helped before "Did you ever tell him you'd tattle on him if he didn't start taking his medicine? Tattle to everyone?" "No, and I'm not going to now!" She gucci wholesale sounded appalled"Do you think I want everyone in St 288 Paul to know I slept with Tom Riley? That I had a thing with him?" "How about all of StPaul knowing you care what happens to him? Would that be so goddam awful?" She was silent "All I want is for you to confront him when he comes back-" "All you want! Right! Your whole life has been about all you want! I tell you what, Eddie, if this is such a BFD to you, then you confront him!" It was that shrill hardness again, but this time with fear behind it I said, "If you were the one who broke it off, you probably still have power over himIncluding - maybe - the power to make him save his lifeI know that's scary, but you're stuck with it "If he kills himself, I doubt if you'll spend the rest vintage gucci watch of your life with a bad consciencebut I think you will have one miserable yearI'll sleep like a baby "Sorry, Panda, I don't believe you It was an ancient pet name, one I hadn't used in years, and I don't know where it came from, but it 289 broke herShe began to cry againThis time there was no anger in it"Why do you have to be such a bastard? Why won't you leave me alone?" I wanted no more of thisWhat I wanted was a couple of pain pillsAnd maybe to sprawl on my bed and have a good cry myself, I wasn't sureTell him to see his psychiatrist and start taking his antidepressants againAnd here's the most important thing - tell him that if he kills himself, you'll tell everyone, starting with his mother and brotherThat no matter how good submariner rolex he makes it look, everyone will know it was really suicide "I can't do that! I can't!" She sounded hopeless I considered this, and decided I'd put Tom Riley's life entirely in her hands - simply pass it down the telephone wire to herThat sort of letting-go hadn't been in the old Edgar Freemantle's repertoire, but of course that Edgar Freemantle would never have considered spending his time painting sunsetsOr playing with dollsIt might be useless anyway if he no longer cares for you, but-" "Oh, he does She sounded more hopeless than ever 290 "Then tell him he has to start living life again, like it or not "Good old Edgar, still managing things," she said wanly"Even from his island kingdom "That hurts," I said "Lovely," she said, and replica chanel cc earrings hun

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