Dear Lily,

Rasheeda didn't end up pestering me the way I thought she would. She just hugged me and I cried some more. That's not like me, but it felt okay with her. I feel better. Here is another story that will most certainly surprise you.

That fall flew by and before I knew it, it was right after Thanksgiving and I was hit with a vicious cold. It had to be the stress from the gambling trials. We’d won seven so far, but had three more to go. We later won the last three despite Everett’s claims that if I missed even a single day of work, we would lose every case. So he had his errand boy drop off some court documents for me to proofread at home. While he was demanding and sometimes just downright rude, Everett would remind me how important...

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