Grandma Louise pats my hand as I guide her out of the store and toward Main Street. “We will get you back to normal in no time. If anything, the Christmas spirit should liven you up.” “I don’t know, Grandma,” I say as we navigate a crowd of shoppers getting in their last-minute purchases before the big day. “Not sure there’s much of the holiday that will cheer me up, more like remind me that I was dumped by a pompous city boy—who I thought was going to propose to me on the twenty-fourth.” “Now where did you get an idea like that?” “You,” I say. Grandma Louise is a romantic. “You called me up
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