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I looked her up and down Low sensible heels Plain pants and a top that did its best to hide all the assets I knew she rocked under the nineteen layers she usually wore “Nah, I guess not So how’d you end up not getting turned into one of the pod people?”

She looked out over the crowd “My dad”

“I haven’t seen him yet Where is he?”

“He died when I was nine My uess I becao cahts Laura always preferred to go shopping with Mo her how much fun it was I don’t thinkshe was looking for”

“It was a lot of rough and tumble stuff?”

“Not all He used to read rown them, but the way he read the story always kept me riveted” She took a sip of her drink with a smile that only came from those happy childhood memories

“Which books?”

“Peter Rabbit”

“Do you still read them?”

Her s so the in a minefield

“I hope she does Sounds like you and your dad had a lot of fun”

“We had the best ti”

“He baked?”

“A guy can’t bake?”

“It’s not that, I just figured people with money had other people do that for them”