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“But doesn’t the Bible say even the rocks will cry out?”
For some reason, we both find that comment hilarious, and laugh loud and long in that contagious way that makes you almost forget what was funny in the first place.
Those are the best laughs lol
“You hate that I speak Hebrew better than you do after months when you’ve been learning for years. And you hate that your sister likes me. Well, you can sleep at night because I don’t like her back.”
Period Ezra!
“L-l-leave him alone!” Kimba screams, whirling, hitting the other two boys again with her clarinet case.
YES GIRL
Take your time, Tru.
Awww
“It was not a request, Miss Allen.” She leans against the chalkboard, apparently uncaring that she’s probably getting chalk dust all over her beige cardigan. “Read the passage.”
Thats sad
Before I can process the amused and surprised expressions all around me, Ezra stands and ties his windbreaker around my waist.
Omg no did she get her period?
“Be strong, very strong.” His fingers tighten on mine and he doesn’t drop his gaze or slide a hand in his pocket, or any of the other Ezra things he does when he’s unsure. “And we will strengthen each other.”
“He hauled you out of there like he was the Secret Service or something,” Mona says.
Lol
I’d remind her that when we were six years old, she married me, and that it should count for something.
Lol
“Guess that’s your momma’s side, huh?” she teases.
LMAOOOOOOOO
My abhorrence for public speaking, always pushing her out there, led many to believe Lennix was running the show alone. Now that she’s gone, some wonder if there’s still a show.
First lady Lennix!
When she walks over and sits, her dress pulls taut over her middle, revealing a little baby bump.
ahhhh!!!!!! Yay!!
“I want you to be happy, Ko.” I bend to kiss her forehead and squeeze her shoulder. “I’m not made for an open relationship, but I’m releasing you from this one.”
“Doctor?” my mother echoes from somewhere in the room. “Is she pregnant? Please, Jesus, don’t let that child be pregnant.”
Lmaoooooo dont do that mama
“Follicle-stimulating hormone. Your brain makes more of it as your ovaries produce fewer eggs.”
I wonder if she is going to freeze her eggs?
“I said are you still cheating on your wife?”
Yes Kimba!!!!!
“I overheard you tell Mona you like to fuck,” he says, trapping the fullness of his bottom lip between his teeth. “So do I. If you’re in the market for someone, I’d like it to be me.”
OOOOOPPP
The years fall away like a torn veil separating him from me, then from now. It hasn’t been years. There has only been one long day for us on which the sun has never set. We were never lost, and this place has always been waiting for our wandering hearts, for our prodigal souls to finally, together rest.
“Keep them.” I catch her hand,
Lol ahem...my hubby is the same way lol
“A Lotus Ross design.”
Ahhh!!! I love the cross reference
“Your mother,” Kimba says, her voice quiet and questioning. “That’s ridiculous, right? My dad would never…your mom…it makes no sense.”
What???
Lake Lanier’s surface shines like volcanic glass under the moonlight, black and bright.
LAKE LANIER????? NEVER GO THERE WTF LOL
“I love you, Tru.”
My breath catches. I’ve seen this charm before. Ruth Stern wore it all the time when we were growing up.
OMG WHAT IF RUTH AND JEANETTE HAD AN AFFAIR?! Their moms?!
“You have two seconds,” she says, venom dripping from her words, “to get this bitch out of my house.”
GIRLLLLL
I take the stairs so fast I almost fall down the last two. Chaz is staked out by the door with Aiko’s bags. A muscle tics in his jaw and his hands are clenched into fists at his side.
Whew this is meessyyyy lol
“I don’t want normal. I want Kimba.”
Whew!
“No. It was just Ruth and me.” Defiance and dread vie in Mama’s eyes. “The reason I was so sure Joseph never had an affair with Ruth is because I did.”
i knew it!
7w2d. Seven weeks. Two days.
Dang
He turns his head into my hand, kisses my palm.
We married on Valentine’s Day, barely a month past Governor Ruiz’s inaugural ball, and started trying for a baby immediately.
AWWWWWWW
