Breakaway (2012)
“Oona was jumping rope with three friends on the small strip of blacktop running beneath the classroom windows. LJ was at a friend’s house. Lucy was earning a few bob helping San’s mother clean her house.
Despite her better judgment, Erin had asked Sandra if her mother had mentioned her at all. She thought: she had to have, even if it was just to casually ask Sandra if she was okay. But she hadn’t.
Sandra adjusted the straw hat on her head. She told Erin that she’d just read an article on the damage direct sunshine could do to your face, the way it could age you. She didn’t want to wind up looking like a shar-pei when she was old.
“Look,” she continued, “I can tell she’s dyin’ to ask about you. She’ll say, ‘Sandra,’ and then she’ll pause and say, ‘Nothing. Forget it,’ and walk away. I think it’s killin’ her, this rift. Same as it’s killing you.” “It’s not killing me!” Erin protested.
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