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"Henrietta’s? Is your old’s eyebrows shot up in surprise

North shrugged "There aren’t ar Cove--so I’ve wound up there after a ton of movies and shows Everyone knows yourout the hoold had expected him to tease her Instead, she felt a lump in her throat It had been awhile since she’d heard anyone speak well of Henrietta Her er as Marigold was But her ardless of how much money they had in their pockets Included on her menu was a si scale Those who paid more than the dish orth, their money went toward those who had little or none People were surprisingly good at paying it forward

"Thank you" Marigold could barely speak the words

"Are you a vegan?"

"Not even a vegetarian But," she adan by default I’m not allowed to have meat in the house, so I used to eat it in the school cafeteria"

"School-lunch old smiled "You have no idea"

"So … you aren’t a student anyh school You?"

"Same," North said "How old are you?"

"Nineteen You?"

"Sarew bigger and bigger, until it was too big North shifted in his seat "I was a vegetarian for a fewy for the farain"

"You aren’t interested in the faold shook her head "The restaurant gene did not pass on to randparents also own a restaurant," she explained "Down in Atlanta"

"That’s cool My grandparents started our tree farm"

"Fa their sign

So the sahly of her ht," he said

"So why don’t you want to be a farmer, North Drummond?"

"Just not in , I suppose"

But there was so that was ain "Why don’t you want to be a farrimly "It’s true that I’m not interested in it But Nick--my older brother as supposed to inherit the farm--it turned out that he didn’t want it, either About two years ago, he left in thehe owned and irlfriend Now they breed designer dogs Puggles and Labradoodles"

Marigold was struck by the excessive bitterness in his pronunciation of these words "But … wasn’t he getting out, like you want to do?"