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Show 95 Yes, Katie looked different, a new look in her eyes, a different tone to her voice. It was still loud and hard, but without such a cutting edge. She had been to the doctor, Katie said, he had given her a complete physical. She had a hormone imbalance. That was the reason she had been so out of sorts lately. "Thank god," she said, "I thought I was simply turning into a bitch." Sharon laughed guardedly. The doctor had given her a hormone shot. She could already feel the difference, she said, she felt like a human being for the first time in months. She laughed, loud and long. As if the world had played a joke on her, and she was relieved-terribly relieved-to learn at last that it was indeed a joke. Nothing serious. She could show the world that she could take a joke, the laugh declared. Jeanne asked if Sharon wanted to help with the pie. No, Sharon said-it was good for just Katie and Jeanne to do something together- she went on up to her room. It was confusing almost, she had not expected such a radical change in Katie. Could body chemistry play such a part in a person's behavior, in a person's feelings? that it could change a person overnight- in a matter of a few hours? Or had her fight with Oscar jarred Katie into an awareness of how impossible she had become? Had she willed herself into this new frame of mind, into this new pattern of behavior? as in those few short weeks after the incident with Marty? Whatever it was, that week Katie was like a different person. Sharon secretly studied her, looking for signs of a gradual lapse back |