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Eli: I’ll send a picture.

Elizabeth: Oh no, I don’t want that on my phone.

Zadie: Or in my brain.

Juno: No Keene we did not fall in love at the Secret Museum. I fell in love with him earlier.

Elizabeth: When?

Juno: On the Spanish steps

Maggie: Is that why Bode had me do the painting of the Spanish steps?

Juno: Yes.

Brooklyn: Oh my god. That’s so sweet.

Zadie: Ya’ll are so cute. Never change.

Juno: Thanks we don’t plan on it.

Chapter Seventy-Five

Juno

“What are you smilingabout?” Bode asks.

I look up from my phone. “Texting with my family.”

“Oh, I need to get on this text threat.”

I study him for a moment. “Can you handle it?”

He laughs. “I’m not sure.”

“I’m going to have to think about this. They say the most inappropriate things.”

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