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“I’m really concerned about Scarlett and that young boy of hers,” Karin Sivertsen whispered to her husband, Victor. Their fraternal twin sons, Eric and Jordan, played in the next room. “It’s a wonderful thing what Penny and James are doing with him, taking him to church with them every Sunday and introducing him to new friends. He and Stevie Cardinal are thick as treacle. It’s not that neither of them has other friends. They do.
“But she’s so isolated there on that side of the street and she keeps him isolated, too. I swear they both look scared sometimes when they come out of that house. None of us knows what’s going on. John from the store visits and he seems to be the only visitor she has, apart from that handsome Swedish looking fellow on the motorcycle and us four ladies from the
