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  1. Goodbye to the Dead
  2. Also By Brian Freeman
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
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  72. FROM THE AUTHOR
  73. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

‘He went out,’ Cat told her with the strangest of smiles.

‘Out? Did something happen?’

‘I don’t know,’ Cat replied, but her voice said something else. It sang to her, as if to say: I know a secret.

‘Where did he go?’

‘He said he left you a note.’

‘Okay,’ Serena said, but she was confused. She pointed at the lamp beside Cat’s bed and said: ‘Lights out, kiddo, the puzzle will wait. It’s past midnight.’

Cat winked. ‘Yes, Mom.’

Serena shut the girl’s door. She realized that she felt an odd lightness in her heart. She started to undress by unbuttoning her blouse, but then she went inside their bedroom and saw a slip of paper folded on her pillow. She opened it and found Jonny’s handwriting inside.

I’m at the green bench. Meet me there?

It took only a moment for the lightness she felt to become the weight of all the things that were uncertain in her life. Maggie was right: she was insecure. The green bench was a place for turning points. Jonny went there in good times and bad times, and she couldn’t help but wonder which this was.

Good or bad.

I know a secret, Cat’s expression sang again. The secret was waiting for her at the end of the Point.

Serena realized that her first instinct was to run away. Even from good news. Even from things she wanted. She almost got into her Mustang and drove away from Duluth without ever finding out what he wanted to say to her.

Instead, in the still of the night, she went to meet him.

FROM THE AUTHOR

FROM THE AUTHOR

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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