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Swiveling in her seat, Jessie pointed out her son "See the boys playing follow the leader?"

"Yeah"

"He’s the one in front, with the striped sweatshirt"

Jack’s face lit up "He looks like you"

"I think so, too"

Danny’s head popped up to look over at her, then glanced beyond her to Jack He said so her way

"Hey, Mommy" Jessie wiped his hair out of his eyes He needed it cut

"Hey, buddy"

"Who’s that?" he asked, pointing at Jack

"This is a friend of e watching the play of emotions stream over her son’s face He went from curious to a little scared in a few seconds

"Howdy, Danny" Jack tilted his hat toward her son

Danny’s eyes greide "Are you a real cowboy? Do you ride a horse and everything?"

"I’m from Texas and have been known to ride a horse on occasion," Jack told him with a tad e hie

"I want to ride a horse, but Moet hurt all the time," Jessie told him

"I fell from my scooter; it didn’t hurt very bad"

"Horses are a lot farther off the ground," Jack told hi his words

"But riding is easy to do and not dangerous at all with the right horse"

Jessie beary look "We don’t know anyone with any kind of horse, so there’s no need to get excited about soaze "Actually,and old"

Jessie pressed her lips together "We aren’t in Texas"

"Could we go sometireat idea" Jack kept looking at Danny and ignored Jessie’s facial expressions "Maybe soed on Jessie’s sweater until she lowered her eyes to his "Wouldn’t that be fun?"