Hang on.*Funny how things can change in an instant.When a moment can become something different in the blink of a child's eye. That what you think is ...a given thing can turn out to be a situation the complete opposite to what you imagined it to be. And how it only took a few words from a little girl to rock your world.Hugging her Father as she sat in his lap opposite me, his Daughter smiled shyly at me and asked: "Do you want to go see my Mom?"*Under a naked Oaktree, in a far off corner of the. " OK, seriously. This is my first term here, but I'm a junior. I had two years at a community college back home. I guess I need to go even a little further back than that. I was raised by my mother. My father died before I was old enough to remember him. We lived on a farm when I was born, or so I've been told, but after my dad died, mom couldn't keep it up by herself. I think she sold it before I was two." After all the debts were paid there wasn't much left and my mom didn't have any special. “Yeah, my ex-husband came to take his children. He comes to take them every weekend” A fleeting look of sadness went through her face.“You are always welcome to come to my place.”“Oh thank you. Do you live alone?” She looked around the house, as though expecting to see someone else to pop their head in somewhere.“I’m always as lonely as you are today,” I said laughingly. She gave a gentle laugh.“About your child,” I said as I rose from the couch and took a few steps toward the fridge.“He is. "Of course, Mrs Winchester, I live to make you happy."With another kiss that left me tingling, he was gone. I waited to hearhis car start up and watched as he pulled out of our drive and headed offtowards the city. I sighed. I didn't know what I'd done to deserve to bethis happy.I'd met Mike over ten years before when we were in our early twenties.I'd spent some time in hospital before that after an accident left mewith amnesia. Although I went by Lucy Winchester now, I really had noidea what.
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