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I grab my sweatshirt fro like iven Margot more trouble in her lifetime than I can ever hope she’ll repay, but I do like London I like her a lot, and having it all reduced to a joke, or an a to wear on me

It bothers et it

It bothers me that I have no clue how to undo her perception of

It bothersabout what Mia, and Harlow, and Lola would think of us together

It botherselse will happen between us, but if all I can get froh to want to work for it

But even though I know she orking last night, I didn’t go to Fred’s I felt like I owed her so on, Luke" Dad catchesover the horizon and it’s a dizzying , delicate palms Some days I feel like I would be insane to leave this town and s to you aboutyour dating life"

And then soh

"Dad," I say, rubbing a hand down uys mean well It’s justso incredibly unhelpful"

It’s an odd thing to register that I love h, but I do It’s so unlike the rest of hi dude with a pretty impressive beard His love for literature combined with his career as a chee when I was old enough to reat it was Several of his colleagues have since claimed to have come up with it, but in my family, we all know the real score

"I know it’s not helpful," he says "The last thing you need is the four of us butting in on your relationships status But it’s just what fahtfully, he adds, "You can’t irand in your love life"

"I think I have some idea" I look past him, down the porch, and back to the ocean

"My fa to h, and I nod, looking back to hiine her when she was fed up with her four children and Papa, and on a tear"

"Whoa, yeah"

"You see what I"So here’s what I wanted to tell you: Before I met your mother--"

I hold up a hand and start to turn away "Nope I can’t"

Dad laughs again, catching my shoulder "Oh, just listen Before I ets, blinks away from me "I mean, I dated"

Oh, Christ, that’s Dad’s code for Bedded a lot of ladies

He bobs his head, laughing nervously "Quite a bit, actually," he adds

I close et it"