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"You'll be so good with that left hand," Denise says as she leans in and tweaks his nose, "that you'll be switch hitting this baseball season"

"What's switch hitting?" Sam asks as he takes a bite of bacon

"It's where you can hit both left and right handed," I tell him

"That would be cool," he says, looking far ain in his left hand and navigates it through the eggs "Will Holly coames?

I blink in surprise at the innocent and colance over at Denise, she givess a nap I told her everything about Holly's father--who she called a sliet away from him and his evil ways Denise reh school She was only two years older than e Holly was a frequent visitor at our house ere together, and she and Denise had become close When Holly broke up with s toward her the way I did In fact, she had toldon we didn't know about because that would be the only reason Holly would break up with me

Me, being the duhteen, couldn't see it and wasn't as open minded about the situation as Denise had been

Now, she is sort of enjoying rubbing ht But that's okay by ht about Holly all these years

Denise's lips curve into a s that I need to address the "Holly situation" with him

"Hollyyour baseball season," I tell hiames"

"Will we come back to visit her?" he asks, even as his brow is furrowed in concentration on his eggs

"Maybe," I tell hiain?"

"She's nice," he says absently, now finding his eggs a bit irls

"Hey Saet his attention His eyes come up to mine, his fork stilled on the plate "You know Holly and I use to be really good friends a long tiht?"

He nods atwhy this is an important subject

"Well I like Holly a lot And she likesto New York so we can see a lot more of her"

"Cool She can coaotten as he turns back to his plate

I glance over at Denise, and she's clearly enjoying irlfriend to estures with her hand toward , but before I can even think about what to say next, Sam turns back to me

"Will she move in with us?" he asks suddenly "The way David lives with Mommy at our house?"

David is thefor alo, and he's a pretty decent dude And I have to give him and Bonnie credit they sat doith ht first But I had been around hih at Sauy, and second, that he loved Sae, but I'm sure it's on the horizon

"I don't know," I tell Sam truthfully, because Holly and I didn't talk about that If I had my heart's desire, fuck yeah she'd move in with me But I don't knohat she wants "It depends on where she gets a job"

If she gets a job, I think dismally to nize this could take quite a while to ht about what opportunities there , but those options could be lih, if she had to I told her that I wanted her to wait for the perfect job, even if it killed er

"Well, it would be cool if she did," Sam says "Because Mommy was really happy when David moved in, and I know you'd be really happy if Holly lived with you"

"Out of the aze at Sam We seem to say that a lot about that child of mine

I s hard, because it's as that we nize Sae hiet cleaned up We need to get packed soon so Aunt Denise can take us to the airport"

"Okay," Sam says as he scoots away from the table

As he trots down the hallway, I call after hiet to brush your teeth"

He doesn't respond but I hear hi his dreaded duty