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TWENTY-NINE

"So she ed you to help her?" Jessica was strolling beside rapes into her mouth "Weird Or a trick Or a weird trick"

"Tell loo an i and missed it"

Say it twice, honey "Yeah I sort of wish I&039;d et all the queen perks" She popped another grape into her mouth "Comes with the job"

"Oh, perks? Is that what those are?" I reached out a hand and tumbled two cans of cranberry jelly into our cart "Perks, my luscious white butt"

"Don&039;t make me think about your butt No, not that kind Get the real stuff"

I eyed the two cans rolling around with the can of sweet potatoes "That is the real stuff"

"Cranberries are not can-shaped Ergo, those aren&039;t proper cranberries"

I thought about running her doith the cart, then reconsidered Probably couldn&039;t displace heron by a thread here, Jess A goddaotta keep Zo in her past for mysterious reasons she won&039;t explain while you&039;re furiously gestating, Sinclair&039;s hiding from me so I don&039;t accidentally skin hi his na, iant baby, and I haven&039;t seen my brother-slash-foster son in days and don&039;t dare let hioddamn thread!"

"Canned cranberries are la I like about Thanksgiving" I whipped two more cans into the cart "Canned cranberries are the only thing lettingon to the shreds of my so-called sanity"

"At least buy real sweet potatoes"

"Canned sweet potatoes are real, you enorrapes, now half e tolife here"

"Yeah, listen, that reminds me There&039;s no way in heck you can be due next summer"

"Sure I can"

"Jessica Seriously Look at you-and I say this with love-but look at you You&039;re huge!"

"Maybe I got rapes disappeared down her gullet What the heckif she didn&039;t care, then I didn&039;t, either She probably did have her dates mixed up, ith all the weirdness that had been in our lives the last few years

"This is the kind of thing we need to put on the spreadsheet"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Never ht now, I&039;ve got bigger probleer physically, clearly "Oooch over, I gotta grab a turkey"

"Do you even kno to make a turkey?"

"God h" I&039;d gone through a Martha Stewart phase after I dropped out of college Jessica (who&039;d beento controlkicked out Iout

I also kne to make "real" cranberry sauce, but then found out the real stuff is overrated Who wants to spend the night picking cranberry skins out of your teeth? Blurgh A wiggly can-shaped pile of cranberry jelly was the way to go

"Oh, come on! A Butterball?"