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....opal  informed her father Ralph she was attending her friend  Monica's  birthday party  at six in the evening and would not  be  back before eleven,  Ralph adored his only  child her daughter  opal whom he lovingly called peanut,  by six she got ready and left for  fred, s , the party was an 3xcuse  would end by eight, fred was her boyfriend and she dreamed of marrying him