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if she couldn’t, she’d have
    Tate and JoEllen and maybe someday a Prince Charming to help
    her do just that.
    Tate had faith now—he had to. He and Brian, yeah, they’d
    been knocked down, and yeah, there had been a couple of times
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    that Tate wouldn’t have been able to pull himself up without Brian’s
    help. But there had been a couple of times that Brian had needed
    Talker’s hand up too. He had to believe that it hadn’t been just luck,
    or chance, or whatever. He had to believe that if there was a Brian
    for Tate Walker that the other Talkers and Shelleys out there would
    have their own hand out to help them, because that’s what made
    the world bearable. The thought that there wouldn’t be a hand out
    there for those as lost as he had been made the world seem so
    unutterably lonely. Tate had to have faith.
    Brian looked up and shaded his eyes against the sun, then
    waved. Talker waved back at his reason to have faith, and then
    saw the perfect wave (for the Nor Cal coast, anyway—the waves
    were pretty small here, he had to admit). He smiled at Brian and
    pulled himself up on the board and stood just as the wave passed
    under the board. Then he found his balance and the wind in his
    face and the joy of the ride and followed the ocean home.

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    About the Author

    AMY LANE is a mother of four and a compulsive knitter who writes
    because she can"t silence the voices in her head. She adores cats,
    knitting socks, and hawt menz, and she dislikes moths, cat boxes,
    and knuckle-headed macspazzmatrons. She is rarely found
    cooking, cleaning, or doing domestic chores, but she has been
    known to knit up an emergency hat/blanket/pair of socks for any
    occasion whatsoever or sometimes for no reason at all. She writes
    in the shower, while commuting, while taxiing children to
    soccer/dance/karate/oh my! and has learned from necessity to type
    like the wind. She lives in a spider-infested, crumbling house in a
    shoddy suburb and counts on her beloved Mate, Mack, to keep her
    tethered to reality—which he does while keeping her cell phone
    charged as a bonus. She's been married for twenty-plus years and
    still believes in Twu Wuv, with a capital Twu and a capital Wuv, and
    she doesn"t see any reason at all for that to change.
    Visit Amy"s web site at http://www.greenshill.com. You can e-mail her at [email protected].

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    Talker’s Graduation ©Copyright Amy Lane, 2011

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