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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO - HAPPY ARE THOSE
MARIA
Staring back and forth from the logged in page to tinder on my laptop, I flipped the pancakes with the saucepan with my hand.I had already started a conversation with a local farmer on the dating site and I stared in anticipation, waiting for his next reply.
I was absurdly attracted to person on the other side of the keyboard even though I had never met him
-i did hope to one day.
So when a notification sprung with the signature tinder tune, I totally abandoned my almost done pancakes, walking over to the laptop.
Marc: sorry, i was sort of busy. Miss me that much?
And soon, I found myself smiling at the monitor, and it was at the smell of something burned that I rushed over to the pancakes.
"Don't burn the pancakes" Mother said as she handed me kitchen gloves to hold unto the heated handle.
"Mum, you have a
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