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Cissy didn’t know the details. As soon as he’d said that, she’d told Stewie to keep his mouth shut.
“I told him about you, that it was okay to talk with you, so that’s why you have to be there.”
I told Cissy I would, and after I hung up, I tried to figure out who I needed to speak with and in what order. I guessed Richard was first, or at least first after JD. My priority was getting JD out of harm’s way, if that was even possible. What a mess.
Ben was gone and JD was back in the waiting room when I returned.
“How was it?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” JD said. “She’ll do what she does. Ben’s in there now.”
I told JD I’d had some news, and that we needed to put our heads together somewhere other than a hospital waiting room. We didn’t have long to wait. It was already past visiting ho
