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"I am now I haven’t seen you in forever"
"Yes, it’s been over a month and it’s all my fault But we’ll catch up over lunch, yes?"
"Of course"
"Okay, I’ll pick you up in hour"
After I hung up, I pressed the button on hth of March It was no accident that Helena wanted to see me today--the anniversary date was less than a week away
Seven years I blinked the sting out ofout my finest outfit to hen I saw Helena She was always so elegant, so put together For years, I’d wanted to grow up to be just like her
A flash of a ht I’ddance of h school My third date with Brock He’d brought me over to the house to take photos and meet his parents, and they’d been so thrilled that he was dating a girl froht as I spent twice the amount of time that I normally did on my hair and make-up I pulled my hair back into a French braid and tied it with an eional reed to travel with the Ren Faire as their fortune card reader that she’d given me the ribbon to celebrate
Helena arrived on ti at the curb for her…in the exact saht before He’d probably be both shocked and thrilled at ht
Helena, as always, looked perfect A forty-nine-year-old woer than her actual age, she had dark hair and olive skin, and she always rehties
She had high cheekbones and an elegantly constructed face, with a neck like a swan and a beautiful figure The clothes she ere expensive but understated, and she attracted ad looks wherever she went
There was no doubt she’d passed her beauty on to her son With his dark curly hair and deep blue eyes, he’d been the h school And he’d picked me Or rather, he’d listened when the Fates had picked us out for each other
"Janja!" As always, Helena greetedalive old country traditions Like oslavia Unlike me, Helena was ethnically a Serb, while I was Bosnian-Croatian But we’d met here, in California, and now she and her husband were like family
Neither of us had found a Balkan-style restaurant in the area that satisfied our cravings for our native homeland, so this afternoon she took me to one of the trendy bistros in don Fullerton