It took all Carol’s skill to get her straight for the huge double and she toppled the last pole. “Love me, love my dog,” said Billy unrepentantly. “Everyone speaks of your great beauty, but none did you the justice. He was so exhausted and he’d been reading small print for so long now that the words blurred before his eyes.
He held her for a long time, not speaking, just stroking her hair. Not many villages in England could boast a silver and a gold. “Pack it in,” he said softly. Tory watched clips of Jake’s silver four times on breakfast television, and in Olympic Round-up, and played it back on the video, as she washed up all the glasses from last night.
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