Chapter Forty-Four

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MELODY If Ben hadn’t gotten me out of the way, I would have died. I’m just numb all over right now. I can hear people talking, but it’s like I’m underwater and everything they’re saying sounds like “who-who-who,” like the grownups in the Peanuts cartoons. Harry loved Peanuts. We used to watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special together every year before he died. I miss him. I resent my father for a lot of things, but right now, I just wish he was here. This seems like the kind of situation where a dad takes over and says something like, “No one messes with my little girl” with an all-business look on his face. I’m a little pissed that Nancy ditched me for her Ken doll. Sure, she deserves her own life and happiness, but right now, I need a parent to comfort me. Alex has been great as a

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