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The Best Gift

The Best Gift This Christmas, Virginie would be surprising her family with the best gift she could ever dream to give them. She had the most successful year yet at the bistro, and, after years of penny-pinching behind the scenes, she finally had enough saved up to purchase the vacation home in France she’d always dreamed of for them. It wasn’t even December, and she hadn’t even told her husband yet, but the excitement that the paperwork was nearly finished filled her with electricity as she awoke each morning, and lasted until she fell asleep next to him each night. The day before the paperwork cleared, she couldn’t hold it in anymore. She woke up and rolled over, smile beaming at her husband, Liam. “You seem chipper,” he laughed. She picked the phone up from her night stand and with a nod of affirmation. With a single swipe, she had a picture pulled up on her phone of the 3-bedroom house in Versailles that would be theirs the next day.  “I can’t wait any longer. Can I please tell ...
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The Case of the Missing Rings

The Case of the Missing Rings Gram had seen her fair share of life in her 96 years and wanted nothing more than to memorialize it with an all-inclusive scrapbook. She enlisted the help of her grandson, Thibult, in this,as-with age-she’d become tired, and a pesky rat had crawled into her mind, taking bites out of her memory like a piece of cheese.  Thibult, her grandson, was happy to jump aboard in her attempt to piece her memories back together-as the love of his life and best friend, Maja, had recently gone back to her ex-boyfriend again-so he was looking for a distraction to pretend not to care. Her ex-boyfriend was a filthy animal of a man-like a tiger that needed to be cages around them. The two sat down together at her nursing home each day that first week working together, after he finished his classes, and she shared as much as she could with him about the expansive life she’d lived. It wasn’t nearly enough for her, though, and Thibult could see the self-frustration this fil...
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