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GOLDIE
I’d just finished telling Valentina about meeting Patrick’s family when we knocked on the door to Book Boyfriends Unlimited for book club the next night. Valentina, bless her, understood why I was freaking out and screeched, “They called you his Goldie?”
“Whoa,” Finley said as she opened the door. “Who called you his Goldie?”
“Patrick’s entire family,” Valentina answered for me. “She met them all yesterday.”
“I guess your date went well if they’re all calling you his,” Finley said with a wiggle of her shoulders.
“If by good you mean they got dirty on the drive home from dinner, then yes,” Valentina told her.
“Valentina!” I hissed.
“Who’s talking about getting dirty? I need to hear this story,” Elise shouted from the back of the bookstore.
“Goldie and Patrick had a really
