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I knew, of course, thatto have that shit He’s the only one who’d stuck by us all those years, and for a while there, I thought Gabriel was going to follow him into the medical field

The little shit was always showing oing to blow the whole fucking neighborhood to shit one day, but thank fuck it never did because he would’ve takenwith him

He’d irl Amy, a no-nonsense type who keeps his ass in check, and they’d settled down in New York, right next door I don’t knohy somebody doesn’t knock doall because we’re always in each other’s pocket

Mom and dad were pissed, but there wasn’t much they could do Both their sons had randchildren unless they toed the line

When I asked , it was one of the first times I’d ever seen hihten the mood in every situation, he’d explained that he took ht For him, it was as simple as that

I love my parents, no doubt, but I love h his thick skull that I wasn’t going to change, he’d had no choice but to relent

Plus, I owned a third of the coramps had left it in the will When his ti to leave his share to?

After that first day, he’d coave in enough to give Sofia a chance, irl did the rest

Her soft-spoken kindhearted ways couldn’t help but draw anyone in, and I knew that if given a chance, she’d be loved, and I was right

Then I couldn’t keep them out of my dauestroootten

Pop had changed towards Gabriel in a way that I’d never expected, even after he’d started to come around My kid was sot to know him