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"Yay!" Ca!" She looked at y in her eyes "You pro Olive the keys

Olive clasped thefor the door and out to the drivehere Castone ay, I noticed Olive hop in and pull the seatbelt across her chest, buckling in and grabbing the wheel with both hands

"Oh, stop You’re not bad luck" Caer door of her Toyota Taco rear door She clicked her seat belt as I sat next to Olive She immediately connected the Bluetooth on her phone to the truck, carefully choosing a song Once the nition and backed up A new energy settled all around us Ca through the speakers

"Maybe we should turn off the noise and let Olive concentrate," I said

Cae turned into a playful karate chop "Noise?"

If I hadn’t experienced it, I would have never known she was crying in our bathroo quicker each time, but part ofbetter at hiding it

Just as we pulled into Dad’s drive, I noticed thunderheads building in the sky just west of town Tho in with their new baby sometime soon, so I checkedthat wouldn’t have occurred to o Funny how time and experience co other than yourself

Dad wasn’t waiting on the porch as he usually was, proesturing that she was in a rush for rass, ran all the way to the porch, jumped the stairs, and yanked open the rickety screen door

Olive parked and tosseddinner with Papa!"

I nodded, feeling a srandkids called Dad Papa, and I loved that Olive did, too, even though she didn’t kno right she was

I followed Ca ould find The paint on the porch was peeling, and Ioveron, so I added that to the list, too Moht the house when they first et hies or updates The furniture and carpet were the same, even the paint Moainst her wishes, even if she’d been gone for al so old that it was becoerous, so in the last few s without asking

Just as the hallway opened up into the kitchen, I saw Ca toward Dad, her hands held out in front of her

He was bent over, just putting the aluminum-covered potatoes into the oven

"Dad!" Camille shrieked "Let me do that!"

He slipped the to face us with a smile

Ca theht you?" She walked over, inspecting his bandaged hands

He kissed her knuckles "I’m fine, kiddo"