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Surprised, Tacker frowns “You mean… have I broken down and cried?”

Quickly, I shakeis personal, and it doesn’t necessarily look like any one thing We co about really allowing yourself to process your loss, whatever that looks like Or do you think you’ve been so uilt that you haven’t let the sadness in?”

He shakes his head, confusion crinkling his brow “I don’t know”

Straightening, I give hi sive yourself permission to feel sad, Tacker You need toa crucial step in healing”

He ss hard, a ht to it”

“Good,” I reply brightly, deciding we need to o out on the porch and ring the dinner triangle”

“Are you serious?” he asks, slowly rising from the table

“Yup Raul should be heading this way for lunch, but he always loves ringing that da forward to doing it back to him”

Tacker leaves, hits the porch, and reappears intolunch for us I’m disappointed to see Raul has already arrived and is at the side of the house, bent over and washing his hands at the faucet

Tacker sees him, too Yet, he still picks up the le by a piece of twine There’s no need to ring the bell, other than to startle Raul and to fulfill h as Tacker does exactly that

He bangs theintently as Raul skitters sideways away fro noise

Whipping around, he glares at Tacker, who innocently says, “Oops Sorry… didn’t see you there”

I grin, dropping my eyes totheir voices, which carry to me

Popping h thescreen when Raul says, “You’re looking at Nora in a different way now”

He’sup at Tacker Since I’m not exactly sure what heso they both know I can hear everything