Part 35 (2/2)

her to make one more for your friend.”

”We'll see you then,” said Rosa. ”And in the meantime,

you two can be praying we get some snow-and soon.”

Jed laughed. ”Or maybe we should pray for patience.

Sometimes we just need to learn to wait.

7/ t's too bad your brother couldn't make it for Thanks-

giving,” said Audrey as she checked the turkey once

again.

”Well, at least we got him to commit to Christmas,”

Maggie said as she turned off the mixer. ”Hey, that reminds

me-Rebecca is coming then too. Maybe we should do some

matchmaking...”

”But Rebecca's older than Barry.”

”Oh, Mother!” Maggie rolled her eyes. ”By only two

years. And Rebecca's dated men who were ten years her

junior.”

”Now that you mention it, I do remember Barry dating a

woman quite a bit older than him to~although I don't

think it was a very good relations.h.i.+p.”

”Well, you just never know. Anyway, it'll be so fun to

have more family here for Christmas, I can hardly wait!”

Audrey stopped peeling potatoes for a moment and

turned to face her daughter. ”I'll bet just a year ago you'd

never have guessed you'd be hosting twenty people for

Thanksgiving dinner right now.”

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