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Carter nodded

"A very sweet girl And what skin Absolutely glorious skin" She smiled suddenly "And what have we here?"

Her eyes had fallen on the cosmos She separated fro

"These are just beautiful, Anthony"

She knelt before the flowers Carter had planted two shades of pink: the first a deep solid, the second softer with green flares, on long, tippy steo on and do as you like Planted them for you"

She selected one of the deeper pink and pinched off the steer, she rotated it slowly, breathing softly through her nose

"Do you knohat the name means?" she asked

"Can’t say I do"

"It’s from the Greek It means ‘balanced universe’ " She rocked back onto her heels "It’s funny, I have no idea how I know that Probably I learned it in school"

A quiet passed

"Haley loves these" Rachel was looking at the flower, gazing at it as if it were a talisman or the key to a door she couldn’t quite unlock

"That she does," Carter answered

"Always putting them in her hair Her sister’s, too"

"Miss Riley Cute as a bug, that one"

A soft night was co on between the branches of the trees Rachel pointed her face to the sky

"I have so many memories, Anthony Sos will come to you," he assured her

"I re Carter crouched beside her