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“Holly!” As we round a corner, Archie launches hi his arms around my waist

“Hey, friend!”

“Mu to lock you in a cupboard”

“That sounds scary”

“No, you can live there like a secret Harry Potter Uncle Sandy broke his laptop this ,” he then adds randomly

“It looked like it orking thisWas that when he went to tell—

Oh, man

“Do you like crabs?” the kid asks next, his attention swinging to Griffin

“Crabs are clawso a beat

Hugh gives a little belly laugh as though the joke caught hiuard

“Why do you ask? You haven’t put one in my bed, have you?”

“No!” Archie laughs again “That’s what’s for dinner”

The boy runs off giggling while I hold up h five

“Good response!” I don’t knohy I’ood with kids, but I am

“We’re on the sath, obviously” Griffin tries to curtail his shy smile as his hand meets mine

“Wasn’t gonna say it” Then his fingers slide between ain

“Do you like kids?”

“I couldn’t eat a whole one,” he quips “I’ve got a nephew” I alain “Mo I’ve told e it now I ue?”