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Once we have the blanket, we bring it back to the beach Instead of wrapping it around our shoulders, we put it on the sand and press ourselves beside each other We are lying down, staring up at the sky Clouds push by us Every now and then a bird appears

"This has to be one of the best days ever," I say

Without turning his head, he puts his hand in mine

"Tell me about some of the other days like this," he asks

"I don’t know…," I say I can’t iine another day like this

"Just one The first one that comes to mind"

I think about ti happy And the strangest memory coive him an answer, but I tell him it’s stupid He insists I share it anyway

I turn to hi circles there

He is here This is safe

I tell hi that cohter fashion show"

I h He prorade or so a fund-raiser for hurricane victims, and they asked for volunteers froned up And when I brought the information home--well, you kno et her out to the superht as well have asked her to pose for Playboy God, now there’s a scary thought"

Soirls have hed and giggled and flirted and dressed in super tight clothes I don’t have a mom like that My mom was, I think, always the same as she is now Except : she didn’t say no I guess it’s only now that I realize what I put her through She didn’t o to the teacher and take it back No, when the day came, we drove over to Renwick’s and here they told us to go I had thought they would put us inoutfits, but it wasn’t like that Instead, they basically told us we could hatever anted fros on I went for the gowns, of course--I was so ht blue dress--ruffles all over the place I thought it was so sophisticated"

"I’m sure it was classy," Justin says