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have any children was by adopting," Jade concluded. "Maybe someone else had made her pregnant,"

Star conjectured.

"No, I doubt that," I said.

"Maybe your father practically raped her,"

Misty suggested, "and that was why she wanted to

lose the baby."

"You ought to write soap operas," Star told her

Misty shrugged and motioned for me to continue. "Why would her father remain married if he

had no love life?" Jade pondered.

"Maybe there's something wrong with her

father now. Maybe he's one of those men who can't

have sex anymore," Star suggested. "I heard that can

happen to a man. He's impotent or something," she

added, insecure about the word.

"No," I said, a little too fast.

"What do you mean, no? How do you know?

Have you seen him with some other woman? Is that

why they got divorced?"

"That's it, isn't it?" Misty asked, smiling.

"Welcome to the club."

I looked away again, took a deep breath, and

then looked at them and shook my head.

"No, I never saw him with anyone else." "So then, how can you be so sure?" Star

queried. She turned her eyes on me like two tiny

knives. What she saw in mine made her eyes widen as

she continued to look at me.

"I know what she's

saying," she said almost in a

whisper.

They were all staring now, a cold look of