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I haven't seen you in a dozen years. But one day she would come back to Magnolia. Such nice houses. Nobody out here thinks I'm more than twenty-eight, she saidcomplacently.

She waslittle changed by the years. There, indeed, had been the great fire, where the mountain had blown apart, and in a single night, a hundred thousand men and women and little children had perished. Laura immediately understood why Cecile wasso fond of the Goldmans. It was kind of crazy to think of Laura as married.