... musical award she could lay her hands on... her mom was living in a five-million dollar house in Houston and she had bought her sister and brother-in-law an estate near Armstrong. She herself had one of the prettiest houses in Bel Air, and a ten-million-dollar beach house in Malibu she ... The words were all so ugly... re-constructive surgery... prosthesis ... he didn't even want to see it. (113) Alex really felt pain from Sam's detached attitude. Steel explains, "Sam hadn't even been there for her when she woke up. He hadn't been there when the doctor had told her the devastating news......

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