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“You can’t have my pickle,” I warned

“I wouldn’t drea it “So don’t tellon Donnie during the day You can’t do both jobs at the same time Not even you can be two places at once”

I shook , “Insurance won’t pay for a home health care worker, not even twice a week So it’s me”

“Have you called the church secretary? June ht know somebody who’d help out”

“I don’t think so We prettyto church when my mother passed away, and I wouldn’t want to i she could do, to let her know, but that’s just so people say I don’t think she wants to coo to physical therapy”

“Give her a chance to help out, Sarah Jo Call her up and ask if she knows anybody who’d check in on hi yourself”

“Ryan’s helping,” I said loyally

“Minimally,” he said “He’s been so wrapped up in hih And I think he knows it”

“He’s doing the best he can,” I tried to stick up for ht

He shook his head “You’re doing a great job With the lumberyard, and with your dad There are not many people who’d leave their life and come home to help out”

“My life will be there when I go back to it This is ht now”

“How far off are you froree?”

“Just two classes And then I want to start a nursery, you know, a greenhouse I really love landscape design, and that would be a service I offer, but I want to be close enough to home that if I’m needed”