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“Her name is Tanya Morrow. She’s a school teacher.”
“Where did you meet her?”
“She hit my grocery cart last week while I was shopping.” He chuckles.
I laugh. “That’s one way of meeting someone. Where are you taking her?”
“I’m not sure yet. I told her dinner and a movie. And the theater in Springfield does that dinner and a movie option.”
“That sounds like fun. I hope we get to meet her.”
“I was hoping you’d all want to have dinner before you leave.”
I nod. “They’re all getting in tomorrow, we can definitely do dinner. We don’t leave till the weekend.”
“I’m sorry I’ve been so hard on you three. I just hate the idea that I’ll finally be alone.”
“Papa...you’re never alone. One phone call and we’ll come back to see you.”
“I’m going to still miss all of you. And no matter what I’m always here for all of you.”
I watch my papa leave my room. He’s not usually this mushy with his feelings. I worry because he’s gettin older, but maybe meeting this woman will help him.
“Hey, Minou.” I say as I see Renee’s beautiful face on my phone.
“Hi my love. How are you doing?”
“I miss you. I even miss my brothers.” I laugh as I hear them whooping near her. “Since have all of you on the phone, papa met a woman.”
Suddenly my brothers faces replace Renee’s.
“What the fuck? Have you met her?” Christophe asks.
“Nope. But he made it a point to tell me. Her name is Tanya Morrow and she’s a school teacher. He said she ran into him with her shopping cart last week.”
“Wow. He must really like her if he said something to you.” Jérôme says.
“That’s what I was thinking too. He says he’s taking her to the movies and dinner. And he wants us to meet her when you get back.”
“Holy fuck, seriously? We’ve never met anyone and I know he’s dated women before.” Christophe says. “I’m interested in meeting her though. She must be someone special.”
“I hope she is. Papa deserves to be happy.”
We spend the next hour video chatting, papa even comes to join us for a few minutes. I think his upcoming date is adding to his stress. We’re all excited for him.
François
I’m still a little shocked that my papa wants to introduce a woman to us. And after only a couple of weeks. She better not hurt him. No matter how unhappy we are with some of his decisions, I don’t want him to get hurt by a woman. When my mamma was alive, he treated her like a queen. She always came first for him and when she died, it felt like a part of him died with her.
That’s how I feel about Renee. I don’t know if I could handle anything happening to her. My family is everything to me. And now we’re creating a new branch of our family with Renee. We all hope she’s pregnant and if she’s not? We’re doing everything we can to make it happen.
“You all look like your dad.” Renee giggles as we’re packing.
Christophe laughs. “We do. My mamma was always saying that she needed more babies. We all came out with blond hair and blue eyes. Mamma had black hair and green eyes. But we did get her curly hair and we do look like her. Papa used to tease her that his French blood was stronger than her Sicilian blood.”
“Your mamma was beautiful. Jérôme showed me a picture of her. I bet she would’ve been so proud of all of you.”
I kiss Renee. “She would’ve loved you. I wish you could’ve met her.”
