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“You two about ready to eat?” Mom opens the patio door and asks

“Be right there,” Dad tells her

Quickly, we finish putting away the tools and head into the house to wash up “Look at you, sitting in the high chair like a big boy” I bend down and press a kiss to the top of Milo’s head

“He’s not old enough to eat e’re having, but he can get used to it,” Mom explains

“I think that’s a great idea” I take a seat next to the high chair and dig in Mom made her homemade chicken enchiladas It’s my favorite, and every time I was home on leave in the last ten years, this is the onea heaping bite

“Of course I do I’vehim over for dinner I have some dinners to make up for”

“This is perfect, Mom Thank you”

“How’s the new tenant? Hollis is his naet moved in okay?”

Dad chuckles under his breath as I heave a heavy sigh “Yes She got moved in okay”

“She?” Mom raises her eyebrows in question

“Yeah, apparently, Hollis is a unisex na

“Well, how is she?”

Hot as fuck “She’s… nice I haven’t really spent ht They went through her things froht me what they didn’t need or want”

“That eet of them”

“Yeah, it helped out a lot There is sofrom scratch”

“What can we do to help? Do you need money? Or a sitter?”

“No, I’ deployed all the tiht take you up on that one”