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“What? Did you tell him you found it?”

“No,” she said, looking e for a pen and I found it by accident Anyways, I got to thinking, what if he had soiven me away because she said, “Joe can be romantic”

Suppressing a smile, I said, “Of course he can”

“Anyways, I didn’t want to blow any of his plans”

“That’s sweet,” I told her honestly She and Joe were both good people and they deserved to be happy at last “Keep me posted,” I told her

“I will,” she said with another excited look It was so cute; talking about it took twenty years off her face She turned her attention back to Eric then and said, “He is getting big too fast I don’t get to see hih”

She and Myra had been bugginghim by for weeks now The weather had been cold and he’d had a runny nose, so I’d been putting theh, so today I had bundled him up and taken him out

“I know,” I told her “It’s harder going out with a baby than one ht think You have to consider the weather and then take inventory of everything hehi so fast I want hiot to tell you, I think he was trying to say Mama the other day…of course Aiden said it was Da Da”

Rose sood to see you so happy”

“I auy so much, Rose I can’t even put it into words”

The new girl Joe hired when I left came over to refill our coffees “He’s so darn handsome, look at those eyes” My little man cooed and smiled at her like he understood exactly what she’d said

I smiled and told her, “You should see his daddy, and then you’d knohy he’s so handsome”

“Oh, I see you in hiirl said with a smile