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And noas on the verge ofthat a reality

After the s, I had to visit a few job sites and check out the progress with the foreatime friend and business partner of mine, and then in the afternoon I would visit the location of a few restaurant franchises I orking on starting up It was a fun experiment for oing to give it my best shot and have fun with it

I learned long ago that one must learn to love what they do

“Ok, all of this looks fine,” Mason said

With all of this rabbed a bottle of water, and sat down behind my desk I was tempted to pour myself a whiskey, but I rarely drank in theBesides, I had to go pick up my son Toby in about two hours

It was always the highlight of my day Ever since Toby’s mother had passed away three years before, it had just been the two of us I dated here and there and I’d had a feos to a ures for Toby It wasn’t that they didn’t care for Toby or that they didn’t like children, but Toby had never really gelled with any of them Toby was a sweet, sensitive, artistic child He never had a bad word to say about anyone and he was genuinely receptive to ht about what type of woreat fit to assume the role of mother to my four-year-old son, there had not been anyone that seemed to click with Toby on that level

So, the search continued

“Well, maybe the search has ended,” I mu”

I laughed gently as I thought about Libby Norris She was Toby’s preschool teacher She was the type of woman that really made your heart soar the moment you laid eyes on her She was beautiful, sweet, fun, intelligent, perfect with kids, and she loved Toby, who also idolized her

“Then what is the problem?” I asked aloud I often spoke to s out So would be applied to this

The proble, lonely teenager at the school dance who desperately wanted to ask the prettiest, irl in school to dance Every ounce of confidence and “game” that I’d developed over the course of one when I was in the presence of this woman I was lucky if I couldelseher out