These Dreams of You

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He takes the kids and Molly to Hampton Court outside London where the Thames turns south and west. It’s twenty minutes beyond the university on the same train out of Waterloo that they took to and from Zan’s lecture; on the way the nanny’s transistor plays yet another song by the girl’s favorite singer: Jasmine, I saw you peeping, and Parker rises from his seat and moves to the other end of the train.