Honey. Just try and rest now, you’ve had too much to drink. We..um..we’re just helping you get out of your wet bathing suit baby. The trunks you h...ad on were too small for your..um..your size sweetie. They were severely constricting and we we’re just making sure everything is healthy down there.” She ran her fingers through my hair with a soothing smile trying to reassure me everything was ok. “..Am..am I dreaming Mom?” I asked with a groggy moan, trying to give my mom an easy out. I did this. We discussed lot of thing about family and work. Her husband was away on a tour for few days so both of us were quite free to express our feeling. I told her that I had a crush on her during school days. To that she replied that she also had such feeling for me. After about an hour, I wanted to smoke so I went to the terrace as I didn’t want to smoke in her house. She accompanied me to the terrace. As we were sitting, I took her hand in mine and started to stroke it gently, she also place her. They let it stand because the will had been witnessed by a friend of your Uncle, Judge Carmichael.”After signing the appropriate documents, we finally parted ways. My cousins to wherever they went accompanied by the most insincere well wishes I had ever uttered, and I returned to my home in Nahant.I made myself a stiff scotch and sat down remembering my Uncle Darcy’s eccentricities. Darcy for all intents was a recluse who had lived alone as long as I could remember. A ‘bon vivant’ who enjoyed. "Double-double and a cruller, please. For here."As the lady took his money, behind her another employee rapidly filled a ceramic mug with coffee and added a double helping of creme and sugar. A third lady grabbed the wagon-wheel-shaped cruller doughnut and placed it on a ceramic plate that matched the mug. All the while Whitefeather continued to cogitate frantically.As he sat down at a convenient table, he happened to glance at a brown brick building across the street. The parking lot was.
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