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don’t
even know what to say after that, thank you! That was very sweet.”
    “Isn’t
he?  Lilly, I am so, so happy you are here.  Everything feels just so perfect,”
Violet said. 
    “I’m
happy to be here too. I wasn’t expecting a welcoming party the minute I got off
the plane. This is such a nice surprise,” I said.
    “Oh,
it was actually Evan’s idea.  I needed a break from the wedding plans, and Evan
wasn’t on call today, so we took a little road trip, and now here we are,”
replied Violet, as we started walking toward the baggage claim.
                “On call?” I
asked.
                “Yes, I’m a
physician at Glenbrook General.  Your father introduced us,” exclaimed Evan. 
My father was a nephrologist and had been there for almost forty years.
                “Oh, wow,
you’re a doctor. How exciting,” I said, and looked at Violet, giving her a
quick wink. “What kind of doctor are you?”
                “I’m an
obstetrician.”
                “So you get to
deliver babies every day?  Very cool,” I said.
                “Thank you,
Lilly.  I love what I do.  I am actually in the process of opening a practice
with two colleagues of mine.  We are about halfway through construction.”
                “Oh, that’s
great.  It’s nice to have the opportunity to go out on your own
professionally.  I’ll admit I have thought about opening my own restaurant on
occasion,” I confess.  Of course, I had never admitted that to my friends in
California.  I had never even said that out loud until just now.
                Violet clapped
her hands together loudly. “Oh, Lilly, that would be so great!  You know,” she
said, quickly changing the tone in her voice, “if you were to, ya know, move back home, I’ll bet Evan’s contractor could give you a great deal, with you
being family and all.”  She looked right at me, with a mischievous twinkle in
her eye.  Of course she would be talking about me moving back here.  I’ve been
back for all of fifteen minutes.
                Evan chuckled
at her.  “Sweetie, let’s let her be here for more than an hour before you try holding
her hostage,” he joked, picking up my suitcases before I could grab them.
                Violet smiled
back at him. “Hey, I am honest about what I want, and that is why you love me,
mister.”
                “I do,” he
replied, kissing her lightly on the lips.  “We should probably start heading
back to Glenbrook, your mother is probably on pins and needles waiting for you
two.”
                “You’re
right.  Let’s go,” I replied, and followed Violet and Evan out of the airport
to his car.
     
                The drive to
Glenbrook was smooth, and pleasant. Upon getting to know more about Evan, I
learned that he is originally from Valdosta, which isn’t far from our little
town.  His mother died of breast cancer when he was six years old, and was
raised by his father, who stayed single all while Evan was growing up, and he
finally got remarried after Evan graduated from medical school.  He also spent
a year after he got his medical license in Chile helping to build a birthing
center for women who did not have access to regular healthcare.  He also does
volunteer work, gives to charity, and during the holidays he dresses up in
costume with one of his best friends (who is the pediatrician in town) and goes
to the pediatric ward of the hospitals in the surrounding counties to cheer up
sick children and their families.  Violet has truly found a terrific man, and I
couldn’t be happier for my sister.
                When we pulled
up to the driveway of my childhood home and I looked at our huge wraparound
front porch, another memory from the night before I left flashed in my mind…     
               
                “Well,
Luke, I