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Down on the Ranch
“I have the most wonderful news!” Josie exclaimed.
Since I wasn’t doing inventory that day, I was behind the counter at the store, wearing a black tank top and one of my sparkly black skirts. A couple of customers had come and gone — not bad for a Friday morning — but still, it wasn’t as though I’d experienced a mad rush on the place following the video I’d posted the previous evening.
“Yes?” I asked, trying not to sound too guarded. The response to my solstice announcement had seemed oddly muted, and I was now trying to second-guess myself. Maybe I’d only been a one-day flash in the pan, and all those instant followers had already moved on to the new hot thing.
Then again, I’d gained another twenty thousand followers overnight, so it wasn’t as though some algorith
