Chapter 2: A House Is Not a HomeHe made the trip from Miami to Cincinnati, but not easily. When his sister hurriedly purchased the one-way ticket online, she misspelled Peter as Deter, resulting in much consternation at check-in. He was warned to keep identification handy at all times for screeners.
“And maybe speak in a German accent?” Pete cracked to the humorless agent, who was having none of it.
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Pete didn’t expect that she’d gotten a Clinique makeover in anticipation of his arrival, but Didi looked as though she had just washed her face really hard with a washcloth. Her hair was an indistinct color, no longer brown or black, and had been braided into pigtails he was not prepared for, but she probably wasn’t prepared for his own ponytail, smudged with gray.
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