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Lenore Dove
“Oh, Lenore Dove. Oh, my love,” I say.
“You came back,” she says, tears streaming, but happy tears. “You
came back to me. In this world!”
“And you managed not to get hung!” I crow back.
We hold each other so tight it’s like we’re one person. Which we are,
for real.
Her hands run over my face. “Are you okay? Are you really all right?’
“As right as rain,” I promise her. I don’t care, I can’t leave her. She’ll
want to run away with me, and I’ll let her. We’ll figure out a way to live.
Because I don’t think either of us can live without the other.
We sink into the Meadow grass, hands clasped. She reaches for the
bag of gumdrops that she dropped in our reunion. “Thanks for the candy.
Gosh, look how hard I’m shaking!”
“Here,” I say, taking the bag, not that I’m any steadier. I pluck a sweet
from the bag and pop it in her mouth.
She laughs. “Now you’re home, I guess I can eat the others.”
“What others?” I feed her another gumdrop.
“The ones Sid brought me. I put them under my pillow.”
“But . . .” I look down at the bag. It’s a normal bag, with the Donners’
label. Then I notice the gumdrops. Not a variety of colors. Not a rainbow.
They’re all a deep bloodred. I remember Snow’s rose, his final words to me,
and the pieces fall into place.
“Spit it out!” I order her, cupping my hand before her mouth. “Spit it
out now!”
Her face registers shock as she spits a half-chewed gumdrop into my
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The moment when my hatred for Snow reached infinity