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Squeezing ht, I wish for Wyatt’s happiness

Nothingless

We o

He leads hter marries with funnel cake and the whir of carnival rides and the electric thrill of hope lingering in the air as people coet about life for a while and make a hile they’re at it

“You hungry?” Wyatt asks “I know someone at the donut stand Rumor has it, she’ll hook us up”

“I’ry people,” I say e spot theline “Anyway, your mama said she’d make donuts for me anytime I want”

Renata’s been nothing but a geht last summer She was horrified to learn what my father had done to keep us apart, but she wasn’t surprised Back when she dated hi, and when she , uninhibited coith ed, and the nize But she never regretted choosing him over Oliver because her boys are her sun, her stars, and her own personal whiskey moons

My father and I are still … patching things up

He’s trying

I’

Renata toldme that she and my mother were once friends, but she never knew if it was her place Even though they had a falling out after my father married her, she never blamed my mother She kne influentialIn a way, Renata said spending ti with a piece of my mother

“Where to next?” Wyatt asks

“Why don’t you try to win one of those stuffed pandas at the clown toss? I bet you’d be Daisy’s favorite uncle if you showed up to Sunday supper with that thing”

“Psh” He cocks his head “Consider it done”

We head to the clown toss, stopping for a couple of beers fro the way With nowhere else to be and a lazy Sunday on the docket for toht It’s funny how h life like it’s some kind of race with a finish line and a trophy at the end