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"What about your friend?" Mo decidedly ill

"He’s not my friend, and he’s not ned (according to Owen) spells as a prank, and overreach hi the spell a little too elaborate, he could live with the consequences on his own I wanted to get away froodd about that boy," Mom said in a conspiratorial manner ere safely outside the deli "I thinkthe sauce a little too early in the day" She h she felt I wouldn’t get what she meant "Mavis Alton used to show up to UMW luncheons at the church acting like that, and we all knew she’d been sipping the cough syrup, if you knohat I mean Maybe he has a probleet over it"

"Oh, he’s got probleht," I said I wondered if a Ritalin prescription would help or hinder our cause

When we got back tocoffee with Ge as we cah sense to edit whatever they told hi worth editing, but that was about to change

"I’ve finished our Christ," Mos on the floor "We have presents for the boys, their wives, the grandkids, and my sisters You’re on your own for your side of the family"

Dad took a sip of coffee, savored it, sed it, and said, "I take it you’re speaking toyour ood tiood," but if she wanted to think of it that as I to stop her?

"Did you get anything, Katie?" Gemma asked

"As aand pulled out the shoe box with a flourish

"Those aren’t--"

"Yes, they are" I slid the lid aside to show her

"Oh ot those!"