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After talking it over with Gina but still hesitating, Alice realized there was no reason to delay it any further. So, before dawn, she decided to go looking in Tom’s room to find him.
Avoiding sleeping together was his idea, and she had been surprised as well as vexed: everyone had long understood that Tom’s physical proximity was a panacea for all her illnesses, and she would have liked to enjoy it constantly. But he had insisted that their relationship needed to start again from scratch, which, in his opinion, would have allowed him to woo her as she deserved, and Alice to concentrate on her priorities, especially her psychotherapy.
She had submitted by choice to the sessions with a psychologist, selected by Doc among the luminaries in the field of violence against women, b
