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Chapter 7 by fantaghiro

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recovery

Sarah's remaining time in the hospital went quickly, leaving the two of you limited time to decide what life would be like in the immediate future. Word of "Dianna's" accident eventually spread, and so your discussions were often interrupted by Dianna's friends and business associates. They came to check on her condition and offer condolences of the loss of her daughter.

Several of her friends gave you the side-eye, presumably knowing Dianna's opinion of you. Sarah covered your presence by saying that you were helping support her recovery, the shared grief over the loss of Sarah having brought you two closer together. You didn't know how far that explanation would carry you. It was already clear that Sarah couldn't come home with you. No cover story would adequately explain Dianna giving up her luxury apartment to move into her deceased daughter's middle-class home to live with her son-in-law.

You wondered about moving into Dianna's place while you "helped her recover", but Sarah was unsure of that idea. Her visitors were already commenting on great she looked and that she seemed physically back to normal. She suggested that she could "visit" you regularly, using the explanation that she was helping you with paper work related to Sarah's **** and going through her belongings for you. She seemed confidant she could come up with something for the long-term.

Sarah's visitors also interfered with YOU dealing with the changes. You felt you were just starting to really see Sarah rather in her new body than her mother, and then she had to start acting like Dianna whenever people were around. It threw you off, especially when in the evenings after they left she would want you to curl up with her in the bed to watch tv, just like the two of you always did. The dichotomy messed with your head. And you couldn't help but worry a little at how convincingly - and how easy - Sarah slipped into her Dianna persona when talking to Dianna's friends.

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