“Oh, well.” Annie’s eyes softened, just a bit, and just for a few seconds. “He was gorgeous, and I was totally swept off my feet. You know? I was seventeen, and had never really had a boyfriend before, because Dick scared any guy away from me, and Billy was – well. He was older by a good ten years, he was working full-time, he had money and a truck, and a tiny house all his own. He just seemed so amazing to me, so worldly, I suppose. Like he had it all figured out, in ways that I hadn’t even begun to look at or even think about.”“Not many seventeen year olds have it all figured out, honey. Heck, most fifty year olds are still struggling to get some things together.”“Yeah, well, I am almost fifty, and so I sure as hell know that to be true now, but back then, I was really looking for someone to… I don’t know. Take me under their wing? Guide me? Maybe even save me, just swoop in and take me off to a whole new life. I wanted to be the princess in the fairy tale, and I guess I was kind
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