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  Kara leaned close to Doris’s ear. “Do you see Mark Lapp?” she whispered.

  Doris shook her head, glad for the distraction. Her sister was as bad as she used to be—looking for her beau instead of focusing on the main event—which in this case were rows of excited children who would be performing soon. Doris craned her neck to get a good look at the spectators who were squished toward the back of the room. Someone had already cracked open a window despite the freezing temperatures outside. With this many bodies pressing together, the temperature inside the room was already rising.

  “He’s here,” Doris told her sister, catching a glimpse of Mark Lapp sitting beside his father. “In the back.”

  Kara immediately turned to look in the direction Doris had indicated. Her face broke into a relaxed smile, and she turned back around, pleased.

  Doris scanned the room for her cousin, Matthew. He would be there with his folks—her aunt and uncle, Verna and Nathaniel. Even though they weren’t his real parents—his folks having been killed many years before—the three of them made a close family just the same. Doris bit her lip and tried to suppress her nervousness. She and Matthew were on better terms now than they had been earlier this month—even though he completely disapproved of her courtship with Jordan Lehman.

  But Jordan was out of jail now and under discipline from the bishop. There was no reason to protest their relationship anymore. But Matthew did. He hated it, and she knew he hated it. And now, after her personal revelation the other night, she thought she knew why, but she wasn’t sure.

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