twenty-two

After Justin left, she wrote Laurie a letter, in her frenzy, which she did not remember having written, let alone sent the next day.

She only discovered that she had, in fact, sent it, when Laurie himself appeared on the doorstep of Orchard Hall within less than twenty hours, his hair disheveled, his clothes crumpled, his face a mask of fury.

He came in the door already yelling.

Dear Beth,

Oh no

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