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Chapter One

“Hoas your lunch date, Gracie?” Lorelai sang two octaves above her normal sultry voice

I leaned against our welcoood until he took his socks and shoes off and put his foot on the table He wanted to h his arches were Apparently, he ritten up in soher than the Saint Louis Arch, but I had no idea a row so much hair on his feet It orse than a hobbit” I shuddered, trying to shake the thought of it out of htmares about the bushes of hair on his feet

Lorelai laughed hysterically “No wonder he beca “Letout of options How many blind dates have you been on now?”

I bit ers to help me count “I think the podiatrist s take flight “I’h school reunion alone What’s worse is I’e”

“Don’t give up hope yet You still have two months”

“Yeah, but Mr Right—or even Mr Right Now—and I need tiether so it’s not aard You kno epic I hope the night will be There’s no leaving it to chance”

“Don’t you worry, darlin’, we’ll find someone”

Yeah, I’d been telling le never bothered an to seriously question if I would ever get married and have children The last few years, I had started taking ovulation tests just to ood neas that I was still fertile; the bad neas there was no fertilizer in the foreseeable future, and I was afraid ht become a desolate wasteland soon

“Keep scrolling,” I begged her “Maybe number thirty-six is the charm” I refused to show up alone to the reunion It would be like proain I was the only proet stood up I had to push the horror out of my mind

Beautiful Lorelai, who looked so angelic with her platinu, blue-as-the-sky eyes, smiled at me “Don’t worry, I’ll call est meddler in all of Texas”