Fish In A Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

“As long as you don’t have low expectations of yourself. You hear?”

“I’m going to call my baking business ‘Hidden Messages’—the batter way to send a note.”

I want to give him an answer, but I have both too many words and not enough.

“I don’t take my appearance lightly. I take you lightly.”

Now I know that there are worse things than being lonely.