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Breakaway, by Stanley Gimble
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Title: Breakaway
Author: Stanley Gimble
Release Date: November 22, 2007 [EBook #23592]
Language: English
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[Illustration]
BREAKAWAY
BY STANLEY GIMBLE
Illustrated by Freas
She surely got her wish ... but there was some question about getting what she wanted.
Phil Conover pulled the zipper of his flight suit up the front of his long, thin body and came into the living room. His face, usually serious and quietly handsome, had an alive, excited look. And the faint lines around his dark, deep-set eyes were accentuated when he smiled at his wife.
"All set, honey. How do I look in my monkey suit?"
His wife was sitting stiffly on the flowered couch that was still not theirs completely. In her fingers she held a cigarette burned down too far. She said, "You look fine, Phil. You look just right." She managed a smile. Then she leaned forward and crushed the cigarette in the ash tray on the mapl