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The senator was tapping on the e to come make the adjustment when I spun back around to the waiter, but he was already gone And when I looked around for him I found several of the sa trays with the sa things Mind and body are both now rejecting h the crowd Sa I smiled and lifted him up and set him on my hip in ahioers, appeared next tofast," she said, with her hands on her knees "Don’t let those little legs fool ya He can really move! Either that, or I’m out of shape Could be both," she huffed Nadine had traded her usual Polo and khakis for a button down black dress shirt and black pants Instead of her orthopedic black sneakers, she earing a pair of rounded-toe, shiny black ballet flats

"You look great, Nadine," I said She returned the colad I wore black," she said, fanning herself "Because I’ in thewas the devil But I was sure that I was in hell and he was nowhere to be found I looked up at the stage And I was pretty sure that the devil voted republican and wore Hugo Boss

"Mommy, Nay-neene couldn’t catch me!" Sa up the red Matchbox Corvette he held in his hands and flying it around in the air

"Oh yeah? Are you being good for Miss Nadine?" I asked hi up his perfectly cogle exposing his bottom row of adorably super tiny teeth

"Nope," he said, still looking at his car His natural curls sprang to life "There, that’s better," I said, s with Sammy when Nadine cleared her throat When I looked up I noticed that a lot of the crowd had stopped doing what they were doing and atching me interact with my son

My father was back on the microphone, sans interference, and the crowd turned from me to him MyA the crowd to the event andfro the evening "What did I h the crowd to stand next to h five!" Sah five to his hand "All right buddy, you’re getting good at that"

"Not much He just started," I said

The senator paused and looked out over the crowd He took the cards from the podium and placed them into the pocket of his dress shirt "I had all these notes prepared I wanted to talk with you about the agenda of the can and about e hope to achieve over the next few ht now" The crowd murmured in confusion and a few shouted the "Why not?" the senator was obviously fishing for

"I’ve made no secret that family, and traditional American, and Christian values are one of the n" The crowd applauded and he held up his hand to silence them "But as you know, fa you can control," he said "As you all know by now, either through ruo, I becarandfather"

It was the first ti other than iven hihter, Ramie, and her boyfriend, Tanner, made a decision to enter into a relationship they weren’t ready for at the tender age of fifteen I’ their actions nor their behavior but what some of you don’t know is that Tanner was sick…"

"Ohrabbed my hand and held it in his

"I’m not surprised," heto let theers who had sex under his roof? Tooto blame my illness now This is an art for e the it It’s kind of beautiful if you think about it"