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Sugar Plum Season

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2019
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“I hear that. I’d rather be doing something than watching TV any day. Has the doctor said when you can get back to work?”

The town’s most talented mechanic groaned. “Another week, if I follow orders. ’Course, Helen won’t let me do otherwise,” he added with a mock glare over at his wife.

“You don’t want to miss out on Christmas, do you?” she challenged with a glare of her own. “Especially with Amy here now and Connie coming in for a visit. We haven’t all been together in years, and I’m not about to let you spoil it by being stubborn.”

“Besides,” Jason added with a grin, “with all the work you’re putting in, you’re gonna want to see The Nutcracker. It’d be a shame to have to make do with a recording when you could see it in person.”

“Yeah, yeah. I get it. Just bring me some more to do,” he pleaded. “I’m going bonkers cooped up here at the house.”

“It’s no picnic from where I’m sitting, either,” his wife informed him testily.

They’d been married for longer than Jason had been alive, and he’d always been amused by their good-natured bickering. Done with fond smiles and a light touch, their back-and-forth was evidence of a solid relationship that had probably started before the two Barrett’s Mill natives entered junior high.


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