“When we made our lists of wishes, did you ever dream it would come to this?” Elise asked, joining the circle of friends. Now not a day went by without her belting out one song after another.Īnne Marie’s gaze fell on Barbie, who sat next to Mark, holding his hand.Īnne Marie had met him only half a dozen times, but Barbie had spoken of him often enough to make her feel as if she knew him. She was well into the second verse before she remembered that she couldn’t sing anymore and yet here she was…. Then one Sunday in July, shortly after Anne Marie had begun attending church with Ellen, she’d spontaneously sung a hymn. They fit perfectly and she wore them often.
Twenty wishes, nearly all of them a reality now.Īnne Marie had found a pair of red cowboy boots in a secondhand store for a fraction of the cost. It was hard to believe nearly a year had passed since that bleak Valentine’s evening, when they’d started their lists of Twenty Wishes. The ones who remained were the original members of the widows’ group-with the addition of Mark and Hector. Almost everyone had come and gone by this point. “We were thinking of holding a mommy shower for you,” Barbie said around five o’clock.
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