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"Oh, God, your shirt is soaked!""It will dry," Devon assured her with his words and by pulling her tighter against his chest."I'm sorry," Aphrodite said for the umpteenth time since they had moved from the patio to the couch in his family room. "Every time that I feel like I'm done crying, my guilt resurfaces."Devon wanted to try and assuage Aphrodite's guilt, but he was struggling with how to deal with his own. There was still a lot that they didn't understand about Athena, but what they had learned made several things very clear.First, they had learned that Athena had been one very ill young woman. A stubborn, very ill young woman. They didn't understand all the medical jargon used in the notes by Dr. Vinson, but they understood enough to realize that the doctor had been extremely concerned over Athena's mental state during the months of her pregnancy. Many of the transcribed recordings that documented Athena's discussion were those of a seriously depressed woman.Two of the thi
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Devon led her across the patio and toward the beach through the dunes. The tide was out, so they had to trudge another twenty yards before the firmer sand along the shoreline provided them with a cooler surface and more solid footing for a leisurely walk. They were able to continue walking hand-in-hand on the firmer sand without the surf reaching their feet.They had to dodge or pause in their walk to avoid running into oblivious people looking for seashells or sharks' teeth as well as the occasional child running haphazardly to or from the water, but they were able to continue holding hands as they did so.They walked silently for several hundred yards before Devon spoke, "You said that you knew the psychologist that Athena was seeing when she was younger. Can you get her contact information? I know that we learned a lot from the documents, but there are still several questions, at least in my mind.""Mine too," Aphrodite agreed. "In particular, I need to know what caused her to act
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"Make progress with?" Devon interrupted."Exactly!" Aphrodite exclaimed. She placed her arms around Devon's neck as she said, "I want to make progress with you, I really do. Being with you makes me excited to find out what happens next. I just need you to realize that I am in unfamiliar territory..."He whispered to her, "The beach is getting more crowded in this direction. Let's head back toward the house."His response, and the silence between them on the walk back to Devon's house didn't concern Aphrodite. With his strong arm draped around her shoulders as they walked side-by-side, she remained confident that he was merely contemplating what they had discussed and was not bothered by it."See, I told you it wasn't far.""I believed you," Aphrodite replied. "I'm just surprised how fast the trip was. The wait at the guard booth was the longest point in the trip."Aphrodite had been surprised when Lana had been unable to track down Dr. Vinson through her office in Greenville on Monday
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"How is Mr. Vinson?" Aphrodite asked."His last name isn't Vinson. I use my maiden name professionally but my legal name is hyphenated with his. To answer your question, he is doing remarkably well. There are very few residual effects evident from his stroke and those are expected to improve within the next few months through his therapies. Our friends, Dru and Randy McLean have taken him to lunch so that we three would have the house free for our discussion. Please follow me. We'll use his office."She led them through a set of double doors into a large office that looked like it was a converted living room space due to its size and location within the house. There was an L-shaped desk with a computer monitor, keyboard, and mouse on its surface. Along the wall, under a large picture window was a sitting area comprised of a large leather sofa with a coffee table between it and two over-stuffed leather chairs. The walls were adorned with framed pictures of a handsome man standing besid
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Confirming that she still had their full attention, she explained, "Athena's endocrine system was extremely hyperactive from the age of around seven. You were two years younger than your sister, but do you remember her starting her period right after she turned ten?""Vaguely," Aphrodite admitted. "I do remember my mom discussing the possibility that my period could start early also, but it didn't. I was actually later than most of the girls I knew, almost thirteen when my first period came. How did getting her period early cause Athena problems?""It didn't. It was just one of the first visible signs that her body's endocrine system might be abnormal. It wasn't until she came back to see me at the age of eighteen that we started looking into other, less obvious signs of a systemic issue.""Like what?" Devon asked, finally joining the conversation."Athena met you during the summer between her freshman and sophomore years at Clemson. With a carefully maintained diet, exercise, and ple
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His expression calmed, and he asked, "What about you? How do you feel about Athena's actions as you're hearing about them?""I still have a couple of questions," Aphrodite said. "I certainly understand her medical problems better, but I remain confused over several of her actions. I guess that I'm hoping for some validation of my belief that Athena would approve of my wanting to bring you and Alex together as father and son. I think I may have misinterpreted her wishes for years, and I'm hoping that Dr. Vinson has some information that will confirm that for me.""For us..."Leaning over to kiss Devon on the cheek, Aphrodite caught movement outside the window in her peripheral vision. "Who's that?"Turning on the sofa to glance out the window behind it, Devon saw two men on the back patio, getting situated in chairs under the pergola. He recognized one of them as the man in the pictures on the wall of the office, so Devon naturally assumed that he was Dr. Vinson's husband."Dr. Vinson'
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"How did we go to sleep at the beach and wake up at a farm?" a groggy Aphrodite softly moaned.Devon's chuckling caused the slumbering head on his chest to bounce slightly."You have a problem with 'Roosters of the Sea'? You better get used to it. The gulls always get noisy and take flight to celebrate sunrise.""Used to it, schmoosed to it," Aphrodite said as she extricated herself from Devon. "I need to go powder my nose.""I heard the coffee maker signaling the brewing had stopped. Would you like me to get us some coffee while you powder your nose?""No, I'll wait until we're on the road for mine," Aphrodite said over her shoulder. "You go ahead though if you want some."Admiring her beautifully bare backside, Devon replied, "I think I'll wait too. I'm going to head into another bathroom though."When he returned to his room, he found Aphrodite propped up with pillows against the headboard of the bed. Her smile melted his heart and convinced Devon that this was the picture that he
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“Do you think that you would have been happier if you had been with your own mother?”“I don’t know. I thought about it last night and then I realised that I could never understand what she went through in the first place. The horror, the getting away from home and then staying with someone else, taking help from strangers and then giving them such a precious priceless gift it is not something that a person of faint heart could do. They never told me how brave she was, but now that I look at you I know that she must have been awfully brave. To begin life in a new country with a new profession and everything out there is not an easy task at all.”“She never spoke about you to us. The first time that she told about you was when she was on her deathbed and I never realised why.”“Now you do?”“After meeting with you and spending time with you, getting to know you I can see how much you have her in you. You don’t realise that. But I do. You have her eyes. And every single time that I see
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