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Gil kept up with Rafe’s exploits through
Renny.

“Magdelene has given me fits wanting me to
pin him down about his intentions toward Rhiannon but I flatly
refuse to do it. I told her if she wanted to try to confront him
about it, be my guest. She’s beside herself because Rafe is the
only one of our kids who has refused to make his children
legitimate. Of course, he claims them and gave them his name and I
know he’s made them the beneficiaries of his trust fund but, you
know, that doesn’t satisfy Mag. She thinks he ought to marry
Rhiannon. I know Rafe enough well enough to know that‘s never going
to happen, at least not unless it’s his own idea, and it doesn’t
appear it ever will be his own idea. Still, they have some kind of
semi-stable relationship that looks like it might be lasting.
That’s probably as good as it gets with Rafe.”

“You know, Ren, I always figured that boy
would end up doing something totally unconventional. I guess I was
right about that, huh?

“Yeah, unconventional is probably as good a
word as any to describe Rafe.”

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And as for Rafe himself, as always, he would
have been surprised to know how many people cared about what was
going on in his life because unless it affected him personally, he
never gave much thought to them at all.

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Vicki Williams wrote a syndicated column of
political and social commentary for King Features Syndicate for ten
years. Her award-winning columns have appeared in publications such
as Newsweek, McCalls, Sports Illustrated and USA Today. She
currently writes a weekly column for the Logansport (IN)
Pharos-Tribune and a popular blog on NASCAR.com. There are four
additional books in the Sociopath? series complete to be published
soon.

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