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“I have an idea,” Nora suggests I blink, focusing with a tinyan idea sounds veryoutsidethis week that you’ve been grateful for You may not have even realized it happened”When I walk out of Nora’s house at the end of the session, I have to ad an incredibly unique sensation I feel a tiny bit free, as if there’s not a weight pushing ht even translate that into hope, but I don’t want to go that far

Raul pulls up on a Gator as I’ down the porch steps The back is loaded with two chainsaws He nods in acknowledgesture

The front door to thedown the porch steps, putting on a pair of heavy work gloves

I nod at the chainsaws “Going to cut some stuff up?”

“Oh yeah,” she replies with a laugh, rounding the front of the Gator “Too h time on this ranch”

“I’ht, so I need to head back to Phoenix,” I say, wondering what the fuck I’ “But I could come back tomorrow and help”

Nora’s eyes briefly widen before she grins “Okay I’ to turn down free help Just come on out when you can”

“Okay,” I reply

Nora waves and hops in the Gator beside Raul I watch as they roar awayCHAPTER 10Nora“I’ve got that one,” Tacker says as he nudges e section of an old mesquite Raul and I had cut down yesterday to make way for a new pasture He places it carefully on the trailer, which we’d attached to the Gator, and ee cords

It’s our third load of thethem to the far end of the ranch One day, I’ll hopefully have the ability to haul it away froh, this will have to do Burning it all isn’t an option—prohibited actually

Although Tacker hadn’t asked, he’d taken the driver seat in the Gator fro, but when he does it again, I take the passenger seat

At the pile of debris we’d cut, he also kept nudgingheavy until I finally had to tell him to back off That I was more than capable of the work I’d also pointed out he was the one lifting stuff with a wrist in a cast Granted, he was able to easily grab the cut pieces with his good ar in a way

For the most part, we’ve worked in silence today, which is fine It’s not a for session, but I’m always at the ready to talk if he wants I’m not the type who can click my clients on and off outside formal office hours

But the short drive on the Gator is an opportunity to engage in conversation, and I’ve gotten a good sense Tacker e with people since he’s been so cut off from others for the past year