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23 October 2008

Some Scars Never Heal - Part 24

The next few days were spent putting out the professional fires my mother’s little announcement had ignited. Olivia was beside herself with anxiety over how this would affect the release of my new book, especially when Georgie started threatening to pull the book all together. To be honest, I couldn’t have cared less.

My focus was beyond skewed as I tried to reconcile my professional doom with my personal sense of peace and contentment. I knew I should be more worried about the fact that my career was essentially in the crapper, but Orlando was making it very hard to be anything but strangely giddy.

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29 October 2008

Some Scars Never Heal - Part 25

Apparently her meeting with Georgie went well the following morning, because Olivia showed up at my flat with take away and a huge grin on her face. I sighed as I let her in.

“Your book is going ahead as planned,” she burst out, setting the Chinese food on the coffee table. “Georgie is happy as a pig in shit right now, and we’d like to keep it that way, so nothing can interfere with this TV thing.”

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