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YORK
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A's
rely even know, you've only known him for 3 months!" I
honey. This time it's for real, I just
out the last-- I don't k
ow Kara. And I am not Lacey, I'm yo
elf, but I wouldn't say it out loud of course. No matter how much I disagreed
become a single mother. My father was never around from the beginning.
nd eventually she became a flight attendant. I learned many things from watching my mother's life story. Number One:
awyers— you name it. I couldn't keep track. But none of these men ended up staying around. And watching so many men broke my moth
rom the prestigious Stuyvesant high school, earned a full ride to
e job to make some extra cash, I thought of visiting the library, or maybe the museums or watching some Broadway play. But all that plan went
widowed man in his mid 40s. Two: he owns a business down in
that you date a lot. But this is a marriage,
clean. And I know you're worried about me. But honey, I have been waiting for s
up. Like it or not, my mother was the only family I ever ha
married, in August?" I said
little wedding in Hawaii, ju
ving to live w
es
New York for college in Septem
e the greatest daughter I know— you'll be fine
about" I scoffed as I s
ith you, you know." I ad
help me plan my wedding. Come on baby. It'll be fun. You've never been to
I cut h
n, the ocean, you'll love it. And it will be our l
ve on to yo
around me and spoke as if she was a five-year-old kid. Someti
"But I'm not gonna
hugged me tighter. I simply
ngs I do for
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WA
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things are in Hawaii, how great of a man Peter is, and how excited she is for the next cha
eave thousands of miles away, leaving me on my own. First my dad left, an
abandonme
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ogling him. I didn't get her fascination with him. He was just your typical 40-so
the ocean, the rows of coconut trees, and how the sun was radiating this
myself that I wasn't gonna be enjoying this. So yeah. I would just be quie
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y-looking two-story house, with all kinds of trees and flowers growing in the front lawn.
ome board shorts that hung lowly on his hips. His body was lean but muscular, with tattoos everywhere. He had that perfe
and I automatically froze awk
der, my son," P
lized that I had been holding my breath
ll him Ry for sho
still not breakin
to finally meet you, this is my daughter, Ka
e motor skills. Say something dummy! Say hi ba
s," Peter yelled from the back of the c
" Ryder repl
say anything, yet my eyes
ked out towards the back of the car, Ryder gave me a wild smile
dgesi
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