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Beck was impatient to get back to work, push his missing months into the past and live in the present, but his father was adamant they go to Toronto and see the doctor. Beck pleaded a case for getting on with his life and begged for recuperation at home, but his father wasn’t buying it. Usually dreamy and compliant, Matthew was standing firm, demanding answers. Beck was having feverish, sticky dreams featuring Melissa. The human adult male part of him was waking up after a summer’s absence and clamouring for attention. Leaving now, he told his father, when Melissa needed help with the harvest season, seemed like a colossally bad idea. But Beck’s father arranged for them to stay with his sister Sylvia, and found the address of his doctor friend’s clinic. Matthew became single-minded
