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“Oh, that’s really nice. I would do it in a heartbeat if I didn’t already have to eat crepes with Angelica in the morning and eat Entenmann’s at Sarah’s,” I said.
She smiles that classic leading lady beam, “I understand. There are only so many places you can be in a day.”
“Jeff,” Henry calls from across the high-top. “What are you saying to my wife?’
“I was saying that I can’t make it over to her parents tomorrow,” I reply.
“Oh, yeah, you’ve got that one-day expedition you hold every holiday.” He chuckles, “It’s your mother’s third husband’s cousin’s brother’s brunch or something?”
No, no, his father’s second wife’s son,” he adds with a laugh.
“I thought that you just drove laps around the city playing some geocaching game and putting miles

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