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Abigail watched Mateo’s reaction to his family’s teasing and noted that he wasn’t taking it too kindly. Feeling uncomfortable, she cleared her throat and redirected the conversation. It wasn’t hard to do and no one even skipped a beat.
For the next two hours, Abigail enjoyed the company of her old friends and even went back for more lasagna under the watchful eye of Ida Park who kept muttering that she was ‘too thin’.
As day turned to dusk the hands of the clock turned backwards, peeling the layers of time until she was once again eighteen years old and carefree. The children weaving in and out of the living room were the only indicators that anything had changed for this family.
Abigail felt herself melting into the air of love that wrapped so tightly around these people who were of
