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  I believe you! I want that, too, and why not? My mind is fine, I’m all here or all there, I am dying to get out of here, and now that you know I am the same inside, you can tell the doctors and I can really get better.

  Just then, Raccoon charged in with two security guards and one of them approached Tilly as if she was a hardened criminal, but she stopped him with her smile, and she stood on her tiptoes and raised her arms into the air.

  “My sister!” she cried out. “My sister is here! Get Dr. Danforth! My sister is awake; she can hear and understand us! She’s out of the coma!”

  Then she leaned over, threw her arms around me, and so did Newton, and we were all holding one another, and that was all that mattered, and I forgot all about the fact that Tilly came here to tell me something terrible.

  YA TITLES BY LUANNE RICE

  The Secret Language of Sisters

  ALSO BY LUANNE RICE

  The Lemon Orchard

  Little Night

  The Letters (with Joseph Monninger)

  The Silver Boat

  The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners

  The Geometry of Sisters

  Light of the Moon

  Last Kiss

  What Matters Most

  The Edge of Winter

  Sandcastles

  Summer of Roses

  Summer’s Child

  Silver Bells

  Beach Girls

  Dance with Me

  The Perfect Summer

  The Secret Hour

  True Blue

  Safe Harbor

  Summer Light

  Firefly Beach

  Dream Country

  Follow the Stars Home

  Cloud Nine

  Home Fires

  Blue Moon

  Secrets of Paris

  Stone Heart

  Crazy in Love

  Angels All Over Town

  Copyright © 2017 by Luanne Rice

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  First edition, July 2017

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