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I hugged and kissed her and then wheeled her out and helped her get into the elevator chair

"Daddy put all your presents in the office," she said "Take theland for you from Grandpa Ward"

"Did it? He never forgets ain," I said

Moland He had left Ae professor We had been to London twice to visit, and he had been here for Mo and once with his wife Leanna and their children after Molish lady as a poet and quite nice I often felt our family was a little United Nations in and of itself

"I look forward to seeing him, too," Mommy said

I watched her descend and then I went back to o downstairs and sit with everyone until they decided to leave for their hotel, but when I gazed out one and all the tables and chairs folded and taken away, along with the dance floor and sain

It had all coht

I pressed my face to theand stared down at the lake Suddenly, a silhouette took shape on the dock

It was Harley

He had co up at my

In seconds practically I grabbed the present he had givenhe wasn't just a wishful thought

"Hey," I said walking toward him quickly

"Hey"

He looked down at the water and then at me

"Where did you go? I went to your house and Uncle Roy said you had run away," I said stepping up to the dock