Part VII: Time Warp 2000’s – Cut! #12 (Chapter 114)

You like these panties?

I even wore them before I sent them.

Perhaps, now, you’ll answer my letters.

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I wait until January third to answer Candy Halloran’s letter.

The reality hasn’t quite kicked in.

If I don’t answer, Candy’s still a concept, something that might dissolve, if I will it.

I should be thrilled about another sister, or, rather, another piece of the Mallory puzzle solved, but a twin?

How could I not know about a twin, for God’s sake?

It has been difficult enough with Ruby.

I have always known about Ruby, and, yet, it has taken us years to become friendly with each other.

Not comfortable like sisters – more like acquaintances.

That first meeting in 1987 – over 13 years ago now – had been awkward and surreal.

Thirty years to finally meet again – I was 37 and she was 32.

The memory still stings.