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killed her fertility. Someday when Cameron was ready, when she was
ready, when she could afford the astonished look in his face, when
she could chance his disappointment might not drive him away,
she promised herself to tell him why, really why, she didn’t want,
couldn’t have, children.
God! His radiant heat made her eyes burn. She closed them, in
self-defense, closed them tight against his seductive, engaging bright-
ness that was like the beautiful blinding brightness of San Francisco
itself when tour boats pull away from the Embarcadero at noon into
the windswept cross-currents of the Bay.

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