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Their lives settled into a norether with friends so this tinant just as she had thought and their baby was due in February

Everyone was delighted with their news, Anne was ecstatic, Julie happy to be getting a playmate for Katie, even if it was a boy, she said Starke was absolutely over thea father, it was almost all he talked about, and planned for, they discussed the new house so es Besides the lovely garden areas around the house he noas planning a special play area for a young child an area which he could expand as the child grew

Candee was planning the nursery, because as her husband aptly put it, the sky's the li in a muralist to create Disney's It's a S as the mobile over the crib turned, or si to irl

Candee and Julie found the perfect corner shop in town and with Candee's financing of the project the tomen turned it into a cozy, cheerful place for the clients to pour over books, and discuss the wedding of their drea that these two ladies would make happen for them

Julie promised Starke that she would not let Candee overwork in the shop or on the site of a wedding, and he made sure he hired any outside help they may need; all they had to do was let hiically seemed to appear As well as disappear when the task was done, they knew these men were somehow on his payroll, because they never saw a bill for whatever work they had done

Starke and Caether, and he still used his cos or his days off occasionally to surf the web and chat roo it done so they could et settled before the baby came

Because they had many friends now, and they had become close with Ed and Sally and Gloria and Chad and of course Julie and Cameron, when they were able to join the couples, who didn't have their child sitting problems, Anne was often available but they didn't want to take advantage and so they s, such as picnics on the lake, dining and dancing till dawn etc