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" Why do you hate Danny so much?” she suddenly asked, startling the hell out of him.
“I don’t hate him,” he said, blinking down at the small woman.
“You don’t talk to him,” she said, blinking up at him curiously.
He rubbed his hands roughly down his face as he admitted, “I don’t know what to say to him.”
“You don’t look at him.”
“I look at him,” he said, wondering when the medicine was going to kick in and knock this small woman out and put him out of his misery. "
― R.L. Mathewson , The Game Plan (Neighbor from Hell, #5)