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“I think all the units in this building are the salet out fro spot in the pantry Immediately Hallie and Luna dropped to their knees and cooed over her, and eventually Piglet braved h for them to pet her

“Wow, sheSoht Ithe weeks I’d run summer camps

“Do you have parents?” asked Luna, looking around

I sh it “I do, but they don’t live here”

“Are you married?”

“Nope I live here alone”

“Do you want to get married?” asked Hallie

“Someday”

“Does that mean you believe in happily ever after?”

I laughed “Doesn’t everybody?”

“Not Daddy,” replied Hallie, “but I do”

“Me too,” added Luna

“Hey, look what I found!” I held up a pink bandage “It’s not Hello Kitty, but it’s better than plain, right?”

Luna looked up frolet and smiled “Much better Can I have it?”

Hallie elbowed her sister

“Please?” Luna added, scooting toward me on her bottom

“Of course” I dropped to my knees and carefully put the Band-Aid over the irls?”

“Five” Luna flexed her knee and smiled

“Eight,” said Hallie “I’ll be in third grade this year”

“And I’arten!”

“That’s so exciting!” I stood up and threay the wrapper “You have a little brother too, right? And a new baby?”

Hallie and Luna both looked confused “No,” Luna said “But we’d like a baby Or a hamster”

“I thought I saw your mom with a little boy out front,” I said “And an infant carseat”

“Ourup Then so clicked “Oh! That’s not our mom That’s our Aunt Bree And the boy is our cousin Peter Same with the baby His name is Prescott He’s only two months old”

“It’s Daddy’s two days right now,” said Luna

“He gets us two days a week,” Hallie explained “Because of the divorce”

“Oh” I nodded in understanding, feeling syer than Luna I knehat it was like to be a child of divorced parents “So just your dad isin here?”