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Show 114 show." "He won't be long now," Mr. Green said from the kitchen. Alice turned to Sharon. "Tell me, how is Katie these days? I have it through Roger that there's been a change for the better." "Thank god. She's taking those hormone shots now. I can't believe the difference." "It's too bad," Alice said with compassion in her large brown eyes, "that she didn't find out sooner just what the problem was." "I'm just glad she found out," Sharon said, the strain of the past few months rising within her. "I don't know how it would have all come out if she hadn't. To tell you the truth, I'm still not convinced that everything's okay. But no doubt about it, there's been quite a change." "That bad, huh?" Mr. Green said coming in from the kitchen. "Yes." Sharon laughed-to cover the words she suddenly had to say, "I thought there for awhile she was going to drive the whole family off the deep end. Myself included." There was a short, deep silence. Alice and Mr. Green exchanged glances. "It makes you wonder," Alice said, "what people did before hormone shots were developed. The marvels of modern technology, huh?" "I don't know," Mr. Green stood leaning with his elbow on the doorjamb, "it's something that I've thought about before. I'm not knocking modern medicine-don't get me wrong. But I think life was different before. The way people looked at things. They got a full day's living in, every day. They might not have lived as long, but they-well, lived |