By her late teens visions of suicide started floating through her mind.

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Constance held those images in her mind, staring through them at the wall, still able to smell the vanilla sweetness of Shalimar, which made her picture her mother, too, preparing for an evening out, back when her parents were the adults, and death and stepmothers were things that she had only read about in the Brothers Grimm.

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Twenty-four to her seventeen, he had closed his eyes during sex, an apology running through his mind like a prayer.

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But I knew the only thing that would make everything right would be for her husband to walk through the door right now, safe and whole in body and mind, the same man he was when he left.

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"I didn't fantasize about anything other than it would be nice to spend time with her, " Mr. Freeman said in answer to a question about what went through his mind when he used to pass his future wife on the street.

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Visions of my daughter withdrawing the money on her 18th birthday and using it to drop out of school or join a cult flashed through my mind.

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