"I don't know," Meredith says, shaking her head, leaning closer to him. It shouldn't matter, when Susan was kinder to her than her own mother ever was; there's nothing wrong with being the step-mother, raising someone else's child. She'll love her just the same. It's just going to take some time, she thinks, to accustom herself to raising Maeve's daughter, something she's much more aware of now they're here and Theresa's so young. "I just want to get this right."
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