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Royce had contacted a nu Jane and Diane Meanwhile, Annie, Craig and Grant had been busy decorating the hotel restaurant’s private rooht with the theme of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the same as it’d been fifty years earlier

"I think it’s ti her feet squarely on the sidewalk and refusing to budge

Annie’s shoulders heaved in a sigh "I guess weat Bethanne

"I suppose you’re right," Bethanne agreed, trying not to s and I were talking and I asked hiht of your senior prom"

"He did," Bethanne added, "because he ell aware of what a disaster it turned out to be"

"And I was thinking," Annie said, picking up the story, "what a sha said it was too bad we couldn’t turn back the clock and do it all over again"

Annie threw her hands in the air as if that was explanation enough

"That’s when the two of them came to Grant and ht for you and Royce" Annie’s face gloith pride "Only this tioes perfectly"

"Redoing pro you to pick up your proine where that old dress went… The rainit again And need I mention that it most likely wouldn’t fit even if I could locate it?"

"Royce had a picture your iven it to him"

What he didn’t knoas that Bethanne and Grant had that photograph blown up so the couple would see thehteen as they walked into the prom

"I found a dress shop here in Vero," Annie said "I showed them the photo and asked if they had any dresses siraph"

"They couldn’t have anything close to that dress" Ruth shook her head "Fashion’s changed a lot over the years"

"You’re right, they didn’t" Bethanne was eager to fill in the details "But they knew of a secondhand shop that had high-end wear at reasonable prices and, well, I found a goith an empire waist and took it to the seamstress orks at that dress shop…and all I can say is that she’s very talented"

Ruth looked stunned

"Co the sidewalk "We haven’t got all afternoon, you know"

"We need you to try on the dress first," Bethanne told her

"First?"

"Yes You have a hair and nail appointh in a trance "I feel like so?"

"It’s really happening," Annie said gleefully

"And Royce knows about this?"

"Yes, some of it, but only because we needed his cooperation We didn’t tell hi in place"

"Royce wants to do this?"

"He does" Bethanne slipped an aruided Ruth toward the dress shop "He knows and approves"

"He’s excited, Grandht turned out"

"It wasn’t his fault"

"He told me hoonderful you were," Bethanne said "You could’ve been really unpleasant about it but you weren’t"

The owner of the dress shop met thehtful idea," she said, welco them inside She led the

"This way," she said, and gestured toward one of the dressing roo over her shoulder, she stared at Bethanne and Annie "Why, it’s alht of the proth eht skirt and cap sleeves reseree The seamstress had done exquisite work

"Oh, Ruth," Bethanne breathed once her eous"

Annie nodded "Grandht you’ll remember for the rest of your life"

"I can’t believe you’d do this for Royce and me," Ruth said tearfully