Three days later, a woman wearing a dark blue dress and bonnet walked into her favorite store.
"Hi, Sam," she greeted the proprietor. "Do you have any new reading material for me?"
"Nothing you haven't already read, Chloe," Sam answered apologetically, "except for this paper, but I should have a better selection in a few days. Why don't
you," he suggested, "wait until then?"
"No," Chloe said, "I need something new to read now."
Chloe paid for the paper.
"Thanks, Chloe. I hope you enjoy it."
"I'm sure I will. You know how I love to read," Chloe answered. "Tell Milly I'll see her at choir practice tomorrow."
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Fifteen minutes later, Chloe was sitting on the sofa in her living room, reading the paper she had bought in Sam's store, when her eyes fell on an item that
made her blink several times.
Chloe:
I've been thinking about you lately, and wondering how you are.
Do you remember that time we stayed with the Andrews family?
If you see this message, please reply to this column.
Ben Cartwright
Ben Cartwright! Why, Chloe wondered, was he trying to get in touch with her after so many years?
"And what," she asked herself, "should I do about it?"
