Chapter Seventy-Eight
Lincoln
Being loved by Michaela was a gift.
Once she gave herself permission to be in a relationship again, she was a sweet and attentive girlfriend and grateful to be loved in return. I was a lucky man.
With Matthew in a day program to maintain a schedule similar to the school year, Michaela and I had a lot of lunch dates, and planned to do some Saturday excursions as a trio—amusement parks, aquariums, and zoos.
It helped her to have the previous passport, so she didn’t need to start the process all over again, but Mr. Simone was coming to visit before her new pass would arrive. Since the band would be doing a September-October European tour, I figured she could hitch a ride over, then head to the French Riviera town he lived in.
If the first visit went well. O
