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I grip the steering wheel a little tighter Sabrina asked if anything got tomyStewart Randolph’s real estate businessin Randolph’s office, wearing a tie every day,to do when I graduate and being a realtor isn’t one of them, particularly in Patterson, population 10,000

"I’ll talk to hi

"Good" At least so to dinner tonight"

"Jesus Christ, Mo in a deep breath and pray for patience, wondering when I’ll be able to text Sabrina

"My ood catch’" Dani takes a seat next to me on the back steps of the small two-story house where I’ve lived all ainst hers "That’s solid I’ to put that on my Tinder profile"

"She also says that you have a secret cache of money that you’ll shower on rin stretches fro this

"My h, thinking of the other gorgeous and sotten to text since I sent her the I landed hours ago

Her response of Yay! Glad to hear it isn’t providing uess absence does row fonder, because I miss the shit out of her

"And you said?"

I jerk ht you were a lesbian and Mom replied that maybe you were bi"

This sets Dani off She folds in half, laughing so hard that the sangria spills all over the riet showered with the drink, and set it on ether, so I finish my drink and then down the rest of hers

"Tuck, I’ a wine-drenched hand across her face "The idea of Ma that I’ I’m confident about ht’ve made my balls shrivel"

Dani sobers up is foryou aren’t a babe, because you are, but I’ve known you swing a certain way since ere in junior high"

"Yeah, I’ve always known" She bites her lip "Was your mom upset?"

"She didn’t think less of you, if that’s what you’re asking She’s just disappointed"

Dani gives me a pensive nod "Patterson is so small-minded, you know? I’m okay for a visit, but I could never live here" She punctuates her declaration with a shiver of distaste "I’ back"