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"Why didn't you let me know you were coming home? I could have cooked you something?' As usual, Alice Moore didn't let her daughter speak at all.
"I just found out about that earlier," Jill explained, still completely overwhelmed by the situation.
Her mother pushed past her into the apartment, Jill closed the door and then followed her into the living room.
Immediately the usual litany began again. “You promised to call me after the Las Vegas weekend—I was so worried. God knows what could have happened to you."
"I'm sorry, I forgot. But as you can see, I'm fine and nothing's happened,' Jill pointed out, mentally continuing, '... except I ended up in bed with the unshaven pretty boy.'
'I've had the worst Pictures in my head,” Alice Moore continued to lament. “Mugged, kidnapped, robbed, raped…”
“… he didn't have to, I did it willingly,” Jill thought sarcastically.
“And anyway
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