fuonlyknew

The Friday 56 hosted by Freda’s Voice.

The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader and find any sentence, or a few (no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

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Using the crevice too, I retrieve the squirrel. It’s too tattered to donate to the Humane Society, so I decide to keep it.When I get up to go put it with his box of ashes, it squeaks.

I almost drop it. It hasn’t squeaked since it was new. Barnum and I played tug-the-squirrel almost every night and it never made a sound. I try to make it squeak again, but can’t.

Jeffrey’s words come to mind, talking about pennies, or other signs. What was it he said? It’s a message that “let’s you know your loved one’s okay.” Something like that.

I kiss the stinky, silent squirrel and feel my eyes start to burn. “I hope you really are okay, Barnum.” I set it on top of his box. “I hope I’m going to be okay, too.”

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The memories this brought back made me smile and cry!

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Rescue Me, Maybe

by Jackie Bouchard

Synopsis

If you lost both your husband and your dog to cancer within weeks of each other, but you were sadder about the dog, would you tell anyone? Maybe your closest friends. Unfortunately, Jane Bailey’s closest friends are on the other side of the country. That’s where Jane plans to go now that she’s free to leave Philadelphia, the too cold, beachless, street taco-deficient city her husband dragged her to six years ago. But with no job prospects in her hometown of San Diego, Jane is roped into helping out temporarily at her uncle’s southwestern small-town B&B. En route to her new role as innkeeper and breakfast chef, she finds a stray at a rest stop. With her heart in pieces from the loss of her dog, she’s determined not to let this mutt worm its way into her affections. She’s also determined to have next-to-no interaction with the B&B’s irritating guests, and the even more annoying handyman who lives next door. Can Jane keep her sanity—and her secret that she’s not really a grieving widow—while trying to achieve her dream of getting back to the place she thinks is home?

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