Page 227 of The Examiner

I’m afraid it went into the incinerator with everything else. I’m sorry.

Jem

Oh, I’m glad now – imagine having that big old thing in the house! What was I thinking?

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I hope you’re OK after everything, Jem.

Jem

When Gela told me what was in the resin, for the first time ever I felt glad I couldn’t see. You know me, Pat, I’m a bright-side sort of person, but I don’t always feel it, deep down. I look back on how I behaved during the MA and wonder if not identifying as disabled was a kind of denial.

Jem

Now I know there’s beauty in everything.

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Well, I guess we all learned a lot on our MA, whether it was part of the course or not.

Jem

True! I’ve been thinking about visiting Jonathan and Suzie in prison, but they’re so far away and I’m busy.

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Some prisons run art classes, so perhaps they’re creating new work themselves.

Jem

Gela will be delighted when she hears you’re OK.

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Now, Jem, please keep this to yourself.

Jem

She says you signed in to RD8, but never signed out, though someone used Cameron’s fingerprint to sign in and out – was that you? She said the old radio was incinerated along with the clay head and the resin cube I found inside it. And that when the incinerator finally cooled down, they discovered fragments of human bone.

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I’ve no idea who that could’ve been.

Jem

Gela says she told the police everything she knows and that it’s up to them now. That we should enjoy our lives, because that’s what Cameron would’ve wanted.

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It’s good advice.

Jem

You’ll never guess where I keep the scorpion paperweight you made! Right beside me on my desk. Did you keep one yourself?

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