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Or like I’ve just co holiday

“Are you nervous?” Julian asks as we hit the road

Thinking about it now, I have to say I am “Yes I don’t knohy It’s not like she’ll be there, but you knohen you’ve had this idea in yourall your life, and then you finally colance over at hilance at me

“You don’t want to be disappointed”

“Yes Exactly that Not that I can iine I will be, but I wonder if the place will offer ”

“It’s what you make of it, not what it makes of you” Julian’s words slowly sink in, and it leaves me with a question I need to know the answer to

“Where is your mother?”

His expression changes for a mo Her plane crashed on her way back fro with her business partners”

“I’h Julian said it hen he was a boy, I can’t ioes away

“I think that was the , but I know that he loved her very much He always had photos of her around the house and spoke about her often”

“That’s good Do you have photos of her?”

“In my wallet, just a photo ofme up on the beach She had one of those wide-brimmed hats on” His expression is filled with sadness and happiness that see to him talk about her makes me happy, and I’m ecstatic that at least he has happy memories of her

“What about you?”