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Jane groaned "But I don’t want to have to settle"

"You always do Every single guy you ever dated was a settle

She sat up "None of them loved me, did they? Ever Some of them liked me or I was convenient butAm I truly that pathetic?"

Molly smoothed her hair "No, of course not," she said’ which hed "I don’t knohat to do, I don’t trust myself I ht guy?"

Molly shrugged It was the sa that had twitched in Molly’s shoulders at suo when Jane had asked, "Did you eat all iven when Jane adopted the New Wave style in sixth grade and asked, "How do I look?" Molly had forsworn her shifty days in college and declared she’d be a forthright, unasha up again

Jane glared "Don’t you do it, Ms Molly Andrews-Carrero What is it? Tell me How do you know that Phillip is the one?"

Molly picked at sohetti sauce on her pants "He he makes me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world, every day of my life"

She’d never ad "Wow You’ve never told me that Why didn’t you ever tell me that before?!"

Molly started to shrug, then stopped "It’s not so your nose in the poop of my happiness"

"If I didn’t love you, I’d slap you" Jane reconsidered and threw a pillow at Molly’s face "You need to tell ot to knohat’s possible"

Or what’s iht

"Are you okay?" Molly asked

"Yes I aive up ain Sweetie--"

"I’m serious this ti to findood, Molly You’ll see Time to elossy paper and handed it to Jane, backing up onto her lap The little girl felt so cozy and perfect, like war her hands on a cup of hot chocolate, and with the fa sout, that ugly nudge that told her sheat me," Jane said

"Sorry, honey!" Molly called from the kitchen

"Book" Hannah shook the brochure, so they looked at it together

"There’s a house," Jane said "Where’s the ht! And where’s the woman? Yep, that’ll be me Did you know that your aunty Jane is a chump? That she secretly wants to be someone else in another time and be loved like a fictional character in a book? And that she loathes this part of herself? Well, no more!"