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Family TiesJonah was completely spent, and he was asleep the second he collapsed on the bed. Once he was asleep, however, it was anything but serene. Had Jonathan known something about Vera? Had that mile-long conversation been an attempt to give Jonah just enough information to not feel stuck? And why was it that when it seemed like he had asked the right question, poof, Jonathan was gone?
On top of all that, Vera appeared in his dreams yet again, almost the very moment he'd fallen asleep. Once again, he was in that heavily misted place. She stood in front of him, with her face screwed up into an even more urgent expression, and once again in clothing that would have been progressive in the first decade of the twentieth century.
“Jonah!” she exclaimed. “You must understand the serio
