SPECIAL MOMENTS WITH THE LAWYER

ins dangling, morning was too near to come , grass shini

door to get some stuff from ne

to her left side. She noticed a picture on the wall long ago. She star

andberg Ranch. But the paper had slipped from her hand and scattered across the floor, exposing a grainy black and white picture wedge among the classified. Now

ked on th

a jerking her head up and snappin

wned the Sandberg, was like a sister to Lisa. T

ed by ! I want you to lo

e, I have thirty minutes to get to the clinic, I just stopped by to ask you to let

ay that easily. Lisa jumped to her

sion turned curious as she watched Lisa shut the door as her medical

serious minded young woman, a book keeper who kept her nose stuck in the incoming and outgoing invoices of

re anyone, especially her mother might be passing by, she spoke in a hushed voice

an's forehead as she scanned t

hink ?", "Could i

airdo! And the dangling earrings! Your mother wouldn't be caught dead looking li

issing person among thousands. And Lisa's mother wasn't actually lost . She was living here on the ranches, safe and sound just as

" lis, i don't wan

would only cause deeper rifts between Lisa and her mother, either. But she wanted - needed- an ans

g this might be my mother- b

th the photo. " The woman went missing back

Amb , the timing would be right ". "I was born that year , the year my mother lost h

ou ought to realize what a long shot it would be for this- she tapped the paper with her forefinger, it could have been your mot

mehow dowdy and up until Lisa became an adult. Esther had also insiste

't nearly fast enough to suit Lisa. She was going to turn twenty to be her own person and live life of all , she wanted to live her own way witho

t, before", Lisa argued on a hopeful note . " After all she go

l of sympathy. " You really want

about her father, she'd been told there was no way of finding him . Esther didn't remember that part of

s, Lisa said, " More than anything", " wh

It drives me crazy that mother won'

dentally stumble onto some sort of genius information here". But you'd be running a big risk in trying! The last time

don't have to warn me about my mother ". We've had so many figh

question her warily. " That you're g

ed her spinning thoughts.

ouch made of beautiful correlated steer hide raised here on the Sandberg. Potted plants shaded the wide window and an elaborate stereo

oman would be envious of . She had a nice apartment in town and a social life, if she wanted it . But no matter how hard she trie

rney instead of a private investigator taking the

. Then it couldn't be mother, she to

now what kind of person Esther was twenty year

r lips . " You're try

. I'm only trying to point out the downfall ". E

per out of her desk and locked it insid

you doing that f

ranches, including your mother house ". S

n't you ! You don't normally keep things from your mother ", at least not some things important li