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Her eyes light, and she smiles “A beach and a painter Maybe she and I will be friends”

Rolling her over, her s to decide if I’ll ever grow tired of having her near me Our separation almost finished me

“Youtrapped here I want you to have everything you dreamed about”

Sliers thread in the sides of my hair “I never dreamed about you, and noouldn’t want to live without you”

Leaning down, I capture her lips briefly “If you want to try New Jersey instead of California, I won’t argue,” I say “I would like the chance to make amends with my mother”

Doris’s revelation is heavy on ht my mother had been a perfectly normal hu

“No decision is perer for her returns quickly “We can try one place, and if we’re not happy, we can go somewhere else”

“You’re reveling in your freedoet it”

“You’re daht I arown even stronger, which I love “No one will hold ain”

The Riverside Condos on To mansion in Woodland Creek They’

re a few steps above irl

“It’s so… quaint” I hear the nervousness in her voice, and I laugh

“You’re such a princess,” Walking through the s, cheesy wallpaper, and fluorescent lights “I bet we can spruce this place up Maybe no marble floors and limestone accents, but we’ll make it more homey”

In a sweep she’s in ent “I don’t care about those things, Koa, you believe me?”

She’s so serious I kill the laughter, and hug her “I do believe you, babe I knohat you’ve been through”