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I nod again

“Well, why don’t you givewith here, and ht…”

I inhale a deep breath and lean back tostory, Dad,” I eventually answer, and he shrugs me off

“We’ve got a little time before we need to be back at the reception hall”

When I don’t respond, he nudges me with his elbow “Trust er to get there”

The gentleness in his eyes is

I tell hi to beto feel pressured by Mole Lucie sister left

I tell hi didn’t feel so

That it felt real

Because it was real

I tell hi time

I tell him about Luke’s acceptance to NASA and how he didn’t tell o

I tell him how horribly I reacted to that news

And then I show hiift from Luke I just found under my bed

By the tiiant weight has been lifted off my shoulders

“Well, that’s some story,” my dad says, a soft, syhtful, caring, loving, kind of like the other gift he gave to all irls”

I nod “Besides you, he’s the best man I’ve ever known”

My dad wraps his arine it feels pretty awful right now, but I have a feeling things are going to work out, Avie”

“I don’t know about that, Dad,” I retort, but he shakes his head