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“Sure, I do It is excellent I just don’t see reverence thatfor i into the show or try to educate hi I was pretty sure he would have heard a lot from his family

“It’s okay, people react differently to different things,” I said, gently squeezing his am

“Don’t I know it My parents are ain they had my brother to dote on, look at him now, one of theat the floor

“Chase Stewart is your brother?” I asked, shocked

“Yeah, ain’t that a kick in the head? He’s younger than me too”

He didn’t coht out and say it, but I could read between the lines It lected as a child, but he certainly see I could i up in a fa in common with my relatives

“I prefer art too,” I said with a wink

That at least got a smile out of him, which was really lovely to see I had really co bad, particularly for so over which he had no control

The opera ended about as expected, the experiather our coats to move to the exits

“Want to meet her?” Chris asked

“Seriously?” I asked

It had coe Did he just think I would be interested and was trying to be nice, or did he want -for-the-wedding way? It could be either really

“Sure”

Backstage at the opera house was alold eance which extended to Chris’sroom, in particular the food table which actually had a white tablecloth on it I tried to keep

Unlike lamourous out of heron a Victorian fainting couch that looked like it had been looted froham Palace e came in

“Darling!” Gwen declai to the bowl

“Hey, mom”

“And who is this pretty young thing?”

I had never heard such flattering words said in such a flat tone