The next afternoon, Laurence and Julie found themselves sharing the same space outside of the studio. Julie spits her gum into a garbage can and faced her father. “s**t!” she laughed. “I wouldn’t have thought you’d be able to share the same space with me without me making you sick to your stomach. Tell me this though, Daddy dear, when was it that you began to hate me, or did you always hate me?”
Laurence scowled at her but said nothing. He kicked at the dirt and, finally, it seemed as if he might say something, but then Anna and Harold emerged from the building with grins on their faces, laughing. A car pulled up and Julie turned to her father. “Catch you later, Boogaloo.”
The three of them climbed into the car and, as they pulled away from the curb, Anna asked her what she and her fathe
