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"I can’t believe how upset you are"

"I’hed harder "You don’t lie, re the circulation out of his hand the entire way Her fingernails dug in when she caught sight of Mary Frances’s guy

"Here they are," Mary Frances said when they walked into the roooodness, Maryjust look at her She’s just as you described"

"Burke, this is irl, Maryand her friend Glen"

Glen pried Mary’s hand free of his and extended it "Glen Fairchild Mary’s boyfriend"

"Oh, is it boyfriend now?" Mary Frances asked "It was just friend when you arrived"

Glen winked "Wethe older woman blush

"A pleasure" He shook the other man’s hand "Burke Perry, Mary Frances’s boyfriend"

Mary clenched at his side, the physical weight of his words and theirher like a truck

"I take it you weren’t ready to hear that," Burke said, his English accent so the blow

"Nope Can’t say that I was First there was piethen makeupnow a boyfriend"

Glen wished he had this on filly torn

"Itused to"

Mary nodded like a bobblehead doll "Yep Probably"

"Changes

Glen kept laughing

"If itis like it was for you in secondary school Quite innocent" Burke placed an arm on Mary Frances’s shoulder "Wouldn’t you say,a fifty-eight-year-old virgin"

Glen lost it

Mary tossed her hands in the air, twisted around, and said, "I’m out"

Glen followed her into the kitchen while the older couple giggled behind theh the house

It was a da Jesus drank wine

Mary handed a second bottle to Glen for opening before they started on the main course

Burke was actually really nice

It was Mary Frances who’d so other than what she hen in the led, and held his hand even after they said grace

Watching Mary Frances, Sister Mary Frances, being a woman and not just a h the meal Mary realized she’d all but removed herself from the conversation She listened to Burke talk about his career before he’d retired He spoke of his children and his late wife