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“Sorry for wakin’ you up like this,” he addressed his drowsy mother-in-law, “I couldn’t sleep and I guess I just wanted to hear your voice, mom. Had a rough night, you know? An old friend I lost came up on my mind again, and that stuff’s never easy on me.” There was tiredness in Kaneda’s voice that he hadn’t bothered trying to disguise, and he knew that if anyone could set him at ease more than his dear wife, it was this very woman.
“Satsuki said I oughta call you. ‘Course, that was after she and I sat up and talked for a while.”










