My stepbrother
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Twenty minutes later
I stand in the living room waiting on Carolyn. I plan to take her to my favorite spots, and I hope she falls in love with them and maybe falls in love with me, too. I pause at the thought a bit, taken aback. Did I want her to fall in love? Was I falling in love? I shake my head vigorously; no, I couldn’t be. I want to know her, spend time with her and make love to her. Falling in love again was never in the cards for me—
ring, ring, ring.