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"What tiht forty-five"

"The hardware store closes at nine, correct?" I grabbed my keys and headed toward the door

"Yeah, but it’s a fifteen-hed "Challenge accepted"

Forty-five e to see Kacie sitting on the floor with a bunch of boxes scattered all around her, none of which appeared to contain spray paint

"I can’t believe you made it!" Kacie jumped up and threw her arlitter spray cans in my hand

"Barely I called when I was five rued her back and set the bag on the workbench "He asked for a picture, but I did hined puck Thank God I always have extras in ently squeezed et these You didn’t have to do that"

"Hell yeah, I did Piper needs glitter dollars" I looked down at the stuff all over the floor "What the hell do you got going on here?"

"Oh, I found a couple of h them" She sat back down in the middle of the clutter and I followed suit "Sos, old toys, stuff like that"

I reached into a box and pulled out an old crayon drawing of what looked like dogs and cats "Uh, did you do this?"

"Yeah" Her cheeks turned an adorable shade of pink

"Wow This is a I mean, except for the fact that every one of these aniled "Stop teasinganatoe I’m impressed" I turned the paper toward her and pointed to a particularly well-endowed dog in the upper right hand corner "This guy up here, he’s very, uh, gifted in the penis department His name must be Brody, huh?"

"Gihed as she put it in another box

"What’s in this one?"

She tried to peek over the top of the box off to the side of otten that far"

"Let’s take a look, shall we?" I pulled another stack of drawings out and set them off to the side "Well, we have Barbies Lots of Barbies Apparently you don’t like blondes, though, because you cut all their hair off and left the brunettes alone" I pushed them off to the side and pulled out a very familiar toy "I rerabbed it out of ht, frantically pulling the lever on the right down to switch the slide "S it down, she crawled over to the box I was ruh "Are there any other slides in here?"

"Tons" I grabbed the stack of slides and handed them to her She shoved theh to see what they were

"Wizard of Oz! Lady and the Tras in her lap and looked ata deep, satisfied breath "I’m over-the-moon that you found this I had no idea Mom still had it I can’t wait to show Lucy and Piper"

"You really liked your View-Master, huh? On a scale fro a run-down barn, how excited does this ue out at , took it everywhere with me If any one toy represented my childhood, it was this I loved that I could just pick it up and immediately be transported somewhere else"

"I had one, but I never played with it Actually, I think I broke it when I hit it with a hockey stick"

She rolled her eyes at me "Help me clean this stuff up real quick and let’s head in I have a dollar to spray"

"A dollar?" I asked, surprised "Just one?"

"Yes, just one And no, you may not put more under there"

"You know me so well" I leaned over and kissed the tip of her cute, crinkled nose

The next irls were already in the kitchen

"Brody! Look!" Piper squealed when she saw litter dollar around in the air

"What’s that?" I played along