Word: tardiff
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...mostly everyone tiptoed around her. "No one really knew what to do," says her friend Joey Tardiff. "We just started acting overnice." The posturing made school excruciating. So Hilary employed her own bit of social artifice: she began acting like nothing whatever was wrong. She turned in every assignment on time with her usual fastidiousness. When kids spoke about their fathers, she interjected stories about hers (sometimes in the past tense, sometimes not). If it seemed appropriate, she affected just the right measure of grief. "Even if I was happy, I'd make myself feel just a little...
...Sept. 21, Patty Tardiff got a call from Ginny, who sounded more terrified than usual, almost as if she had seen a ghost. "I just got a dozen beautiful red roses for my 27th wedding anniversary," said a winded Ginny. Then there was a long pause. "They're from George." But it was clear from the loopy cursive who had really sent them, along with the following message...
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