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“So, it’s possible I always knew a pretty girl like that couldn’t possibly stay single for er”

“Mom”

“Oh, I’ to step up and admit the way you feel about her yourself?” she asked sweetly

He scowled Of course, his o back to counseling wasn’t as spontaneous as I let you believe”

“You’re slaying the dragon for your lady fair”

He smiled “Guess I am”

“That girl is your soul you have to fight, reh school You could turn the ladies’ heads and get dates, but you didn’t have any friends While you had your brothers, they were so e difference between seventeen and fourteen Then Aibhlinn came into your life, and you lit up, my boy You blosso like that away”

“But you risk losing it all opening yourself up co someone the means to destroy you?” he asked

She sighed “Because if they’re truly the one, the thought of life without theinable So, despite all your fears and reservations, you give everything you have to hold onto theifted I was terrified of failure when I le mother and a deadbeat father in an era where that was as taboo as it got I wasn’t sure I believed in love, not really Then II was h to not let the fear render ?”

“I’ her words over in his mind

“Good Now, dinner at six o’clock?”

“Yeah, Mom, I’ll be there”

“Good boy, love you”

“Ditto,” he replied, hanging up

THE OFFICE WAS SMALL and ho converted into an office He walked inside and found hirey-haired office er who sat at the desk with a headset on