Because there was no hope and the situation was so frightening, I was between hope and despair, between life and death.

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Sally's also suspicious that Matt, a decade older, is hiding a wife someplace, yet Paulsen skillfully alternates between hope, suspicion, despair and glimpses of fondness for Matt.

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