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"That’stoo bad" He looks a little uncomfortable, like he doesn’t quite kno to react

Probably shouldn’t have told hirandma is awesome A real sweet old lady who makes the best church cake you’ve ever had" Sort of Kind of mean, actually She’s the type that sits on her front porch with a shotgun and threatens strangers who come on her property that she’ll shoot their asses off if they take one step farther No joke

My life in Cactus is a cartoon cliché of epic proportions, I swear

Matt frowns "Church cake?"

"Oh, you know A big ol’ made-from-scratch chocolate sheet cake that everyone at the church social can have a piece of With so you’ve ever tasted" I sigh,fierce Grabbing at a mint the restaurant provided, I tear off the wrapper and pop it into my mouth but it’s a poor substitute for chocolate cake

"Ah, now I see it" When I look at him oddly, he s"

I cla about home and out comes the Texan like I can’t help myself "I left Cactus when I was nineteen, and I’ve never been back" And I don’t really randma when I can, but it’s not like our relationship was super close I had no friends And I had a wife out to hang h she thought we’d been up to much worse She’d found out about me pretty quickly after I found out about her, and it had been such a night with her

Thank God I never slept with hiirl orked for him knocked up, his wife pro the mistress

That would’ve been me if I’d continued with him My life stuck married to soue in hisaround with every duh ht

"So how about you?" I ask, desperate to change the conversation I pushin h "Tell me your life story"

He s "Raised by my father after my mother died when I was four Always loved baseball because he was a forot injured, was forced into early retireht the winery That’s it"