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There was a letter stuck to my front door this morning.
Cat—
I will be at the front entrance to the zoo at 1:00 this afternoon. Come if you want.
MM
“What do you think it means?” I asked Amanda (emergency call).
“It means he feels terribly, terribly guilty. You caught him off-guard yesterday, and now that he’s had time to prepare, he’s ready to talk to you.”
“And say what?”
“‘You misunderstood,’ or ‘I was on cold medication that day’—who knows? But aren’t you dying to find out?”
“No.”
“Cat, come on! This is finally your chance to force Matt McKinney to apologize to you after all these years. I’m telling you, I’d drive a thousand miles if I knew my enemy was about to fess up how he’d hurt me.”
“I just don’t know if I can go through it all again. Yesterday was really bad. I was
