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Maybe I should show him the photo book privately and see what he says

Would he try to talk his way out of it? Or would he couts to find out

Dad stares at ears are turning inside his head Does he have so? I relax my features to les the car keys in his hand "If that boy bothers you again, Zorie, please tell me Immediately"

He can hold his breath, but I don’t think I’ll be confiding anything to him any time soon

Maybe ever

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That was all ized to Mo a scene at work Then he ain Like nothing had happened A couple hours later, he’s still gone, phoning to tell us to eat lunch without hi racquetball with a client Only, I’

Ihe says any on faretarian restaurant, we are strolling back ho district

Apart fro anyone really needs, but everything you want Specialty shops selling Swedish toothbrushes, craft sake, exotic hand puppets, and toys made from recycled wood are tucked between a handful of national chain stores And all along the sidewalks in front of these shops, moms and tattooed street punks share benches as they listen to a student jazz ense coffee shop

"You barely said anything in the restaurant," Mo the leftovers fro "I knoas busy and loud in there, but you usually get in at least one joke about vegetarians"

It’s easy to do Tacos should have ainst nature Half of the people who eat there are in need of a good iron supple about the trip," I lie

"The tripor your dadan idiot of hi my eyes toward hers "Diaet carried away by his eonal seareed with how he’s treated Lennon If the Mackenzies ever treated you that way--"

"But they don’t"

She nods "I know And it’s not ht now about the business He’s lost sofairly profusely now, and I’m not sure how to stanch the wound until the business bounces back"

I consider this for a moment "You could call Grandpa Sam He’d loan you uy in the world Her parents ca company, Moon Imports and Exports--Moon is their Korean family name--that ships machinery fro all right Grandpa Saht ear I text him my best constellation photos everybut repeated, enthusiastic emojis He used to send only s out to thu my parents for any h"