![]() Kirby manages to get him back to his place in a taxi, and the next day when she is in a taxi home, she sees Luke outside her lodgings. Kirby continues with life, and the night when Senator Kennedy is a guest at the inn, Luke, Patty’s boyfriend, turns up at the inn, drunk and demanding to know where Patty is. What he is not ready to do yet is to include Kirby in his family meetings. ![]() Yet, she didn’t use it because that night she had strong abdominal pains and she had a miscarriage.Īfter her confession, Darren says that everybody has baggage, and he understands. She confirmed the pregnancy, and Kirby begged her to help to get someone who could sort out her mess, and Dr Frazier gave her a number. Kirby went to the doctor, calling herself Clarissa, and the doctor was Dr Frazier, Darren’t mum. Then Kirby realised that she was pregnant, and she discovered that Scottie was actually married. The second time she met him, they kissed, and that is how their affair started. He was the officer who arrested her in the demonstrations, but he let her go with just a fine. Then Kirby reveals the reason why his mother doesn’t like her other than because she is white. Kirby confronts him about it, and he says that it is difficult but he likes her. ![]() What worries her is that Darren clearly doesn’t want his family to know about her. ![]() The first one is Kirby, who has been seeing Darren for a while. The secrets in this family get, who revealed little by little. ![]()
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