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were scratching at my very heart, but I didn't know what to do about it other than what I had done. Call your son to you, Manfred. 'Mona, Mona, Mona,' I said. ’             Because African and Spanish and French and Anglo-Saxon genes were all scrambled in the lineage of Jasmine's people before they came,

’             'That can't be done,' I whispered. I made the Sign of the Cross. ’             Now, Sweetheart's clothing included two ranch-mink coats and some beautiful ballgowns from the days when Sweetheart had been young and single and had gone to Mardi Gras balls. I watched her, and her words ran as if written on ribbons being pulled through my mind.