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“I really didn’t think you and I would ever talk about babies, Olaf”

“Nor I, but I saw you with the baby, and so harsh in you softened I hadn’t expected to see that”

“It surprised me, too,” I said, and that was honest

“You talked to the woman in a way that surprised me as well”

“You mean Brianna?”

“Yes”

I said, “She surprised me because she named her kids after characters in her favorite book I really didn’t see her as a reader”

“She was different as a child You heard her She found boys, and books were forgotten,” Olaf said

“If they were forgotten, she would have na else,” I said

“That was unexpected,” he admitted

“I know I thought she was just soet her talking about so besides strip clubs and her friends”

“She would cheat on her husband,” Olaf said as if it was just true

“You don’t know that”

“I believe I could seduce her”

“I noticed you putting so with her”