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Chapter Twenty+Seven I
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Mide wouldn't stop pacing around the vast living room and Eartha was starting to get worried. He had been doing that since they came back from the teaching hospital and that was several minutes ago.
'Mide, sit down na,' she cajoled.
He stopped pacing and stood still. Eartha thought he had heard her and relaxed back in her seat.
But he didn't seem to have. He combed his hand through his hair and looked deep in thought.
"I mean, how is that even possible? How couldn't we have noticed?" He turned to stare at Eartha.
Eartha cringed and shifted uncomfortably in her seat. It wasn't as if guilt wasn't eating up her own insides as well.
Mide continued pacing. 'Alacrimia,' he muttered. "But nobody ever had in our family.'
Eartha sighed, slightly annoyed at his peevishness. 'Mide, didn't you hear anything the specialist
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