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I waited my turn, and when I reached her, her rheumy blue eyes widened with surprise and her estured impatiently, and my cousins, Tasha and Liza, helped her out of her wheelchair She stood shakily and took in the sight ofher eyes She stretched a tentative hand and pattedhere I’ve been waiting all these years, praying you’d co eyes on you again"

She touched my hair "Look at you, just as beautiful as ever, but what have you done to your lovely hair?"

I smiled "It was a nuisance so I cut it off"

She patted lad you did You wanted to cut it for your coht we had Do you remember that?"

I shook my head "Not a bit of it"

"Doesn’t matter now You’re perfect as you are"

She held on to uests nearby "I don’t see your little girl What happened to her?"

"Kinsey? She’s all grown up now," I said

"I i she was I’ve saved some trinkets of yours I want her to have Do you think she’d ever come visit me? It would make me so happy"

I put my hand over hers "It wouldn’t surprise me if she did"