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I muttered, “Huh?”

“Okay, so, I was eavesdropping, and it suddenly occurred to h, just like Michael Caine,” Lark explained

Eden whispered, “Michael Caine?”

Seth leaned in and told his boyfriend, “He played Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol”

Lark was still on a roll “Don’t you see? You’ve finally realized the error of your ways, Casey, and Eden and Seth are like, Kerhost of Christed by the boyfriend of Christrow three sizes!”

Seth pointed out, “I think that last part’s actually from the Grinch”

I chuckled and said, “Just go with it”

That afternoon, I parked my tree-hts Then I went inside and changed into my scrubs

I was an hour early, so I headed straight to Oscar’s room He smiled at me, but it didn’t reach his eyes, which were underscored with dark circles

Nothing had changed with hishis to keep Oscar close to her, instead of letting hiet shipped off to a care facility for the rest of his recovery This was the best place for the boy until she woke up, no question, but I wasn’t sure how er Theo could stall the transfer

After I helped Oscar into a wheelchair and tucked hiht him over to theso he could take a look at the car I’d told him all about it and it had put a s it for himself

“I love it,” the boy said “It’s like a one-man Christmas parade”

Darice cae Oscar’s linens while he was out of bed, and she told me, “I don’t see why you haven’t sawed that tree off yet”

I shook my head “I can’t do that”

“You get that’s what Christht inside?”

“That tree was meant to live on beyond Christ seven days a week, I’ll figure it out”