Part seven of my “short” story

Late summer greetings to you all! This month’s AV theme is inelegance –an intriguing motif for any writer! (Thanks to Diana and Joana for the theme idea, and thanks to Leslie for the graphic!)

While I had aimed to include the word somewhere in this post, I’m afraid the only inelegance you’ll find is in the mode of my storytelling!

(If you’re looking for earlier parts of this modern P&P story, you can find them here: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, and part six.)

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