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Myand happy I haven’t seen her look that way in a long time She even sat doith me on the couch and put her arm around me and told me she was proud of me and that she was sorry She didn’t say what she was sorry about but I kneas aboutis so I told her it was fine I knoas dumb, but I liked it when she said she was proud of me It was kinda cool

Chapter Twenty-one

“All right, we’re here What’s the eency?”

Winona turned around to face her sisters, ere standing by the front door “It’s a fashion 911 My date with Mark is in an hour and somehow I need to lose forty pounds and buy a neardrobe And I think I need microdermabrasion”

“Take a deep breath,” Vivi Ann said

“What is she, in labor? Breathing never works I say we get her a straight shot,” was Aurora’s advice

“We are not getting her drunk before her date” Vivi Ann laughed “Besides, lately that’s your advice for everything”

“Consistency is a virtue,” Aurora said priht back” She left the house and was back in a flash with heras a tackle box) and a pretty pink box fro store on Main Street

“What’s all that?” Winona asked “I only called you guys fifteen o”

“We aiting for it,” Vivi Ann said “Remember when the banker from Shelton asked you out? You were a wreck”

“And that teacher froot here,” Aurora added

“She did”

Winona collapsed onto her garage-sale sofa, realizing for the first tiasoline “I’m hopeless”

Vivi Ann sat down beside her “No You’re hopeful That’s your probleuy is finally the one Your Neo”

“Do you have to use the word finally? And I hated those Matrix movies, you know that They made no sense”