Chapter 450 Lori's Wonder:>71

• Davey had gone into what passed for downtown to arrange for the realtor to come and do whatever it is they do when they list a property, and Sophie and I set to work packing the things I couldn't bear to leave behind, even temporarily; mostly mementoes of Mom and Daddy, framed photographs, trinkets and such, but things I couldn't do without. I'd gone to make us a coffee while Sophie rummaged and sorted through various bits and pieces, but when I came back with the coffee, my heart leaped into my mouth, then dropped into my boots at what I saw. Sophie had a photo album open on her knees, her expression unreadable as she stared at the pictures. Before she even said anything, I already knew exactly which pictures she'd found. She looked up at me, her face completely blank and expressionless.
• "Loretta, would you please explain something to me?" she asked, her voice carefully neutral. I gulped and nodded, unable to speak for the knot in my throat.
• "Would you kindly explain to me who these people are? I recognize David, even as a boy he was so distinctive, and a woman who is obviously his mother, David's father's tastes obviously remained with him, she looks enough like me to be my sister, and a man I can only assume is his stepfather, but why are you in this photograph, at such an early age, too, and why do you look so much like David's mother? I want the truth, please, now."