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Extended Epilogue

One Year Later

Rory

“Peekaboo”

Colleen looks up atinto a sers over her cheek, savoring the feeling of her warm skin

It still amazes me that she came from me, this perfect little bundle, named after one of oing to be a girl, the naed to our daughter

Outside, the sun has set and a war to sit for Colleen soon, the first time I will have been apart from her since she was born

My husband and I are going on a date, andwith so much excitement I can hardly take it

“Be good for grand down and tenderly kissing her forehead

I feel tears trying to rise to ed with the fear I felt when ht never work out, that he ht not want me, or dad wouldn’t approve

Well, it has worked out

He does want me

And even if it took soave birth to Colleen, tears in his eyes as he walked slowly into the room and stared down at her in awe

“You’re a grandad,” I told hi the closest to crying I’ve ever seen him

I turn at the sound of Bennet, ht of him in his dark blue suit He’s shaved for the occasion, and his eyes flood with heat as he stares at me

“How do I look?” I ask

“Aht”

I’hteenth birthday and for our first date Okay, this one is a tad bigger, because babies will do that to a girl…

But if anything, it see the baby His eyes never leave rin