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to pass on to his firstborn son.
    “Ooh.” Desi meticulously tore open the
wrapping to reveal the blue handkerchief embroidered with “Favorite
Great Grandson.” Tracey’s two sons got the same “unique” gift, but
Desi seemed to play along as if she had never seen anything so
beautiful before.
    “Mom, that makes three favorites by now,”
Sarah teased her mother.
    “And your point is?” Granny Rose huffed with
a smile. “Since they all belong to me, they’re all my favorite.
It’s a great-grandmother’s prerogative.”
    They all laughed at Granny Rose’s antics as
other gifts followed. Halcyon laughed on cue with the others, but
she prayed for her baby sister’s happiness as she struggled with
her own shattered dreams. At least Tracey and Desi had been married
when they had their children. Leave it to the middle child to buck
the system. But the Holland women were a special breed she wouldn’t
trade for anything. When Ashanti was born out of wedlock, none of
them ever made her feel ashamed. They seemed to shower her with an
extra dose of love.
    Granny Rose had whispered something in
Halcyon’s ear that day and she never had forgotten it. “Every
little girl deserves a good daddy and every woman deserves a good
man,” Granny Rose had said with a hug.
    Her grandmother had mastered the art of
chastening someone with the sweetest spirit. Halcyon had braced for
a tongue lashing on how she was living in sin with Scott, but it
never came.
    “I never thought I would be this happy,” Desi
said, glowing, invading Halcyon’s thoughts of the past. She snapped
to attention.
    More personalized gifts followed from her
mother, Tracey and then Halcyon. Since no babies were allowed, the
women were free to chat and indulge in the teacakes, gourmet
sandwiches, and platters of fruit.
    They were all having a good time until Desi
checked the time. “Well, I’ve been away from my baby long
enough.”
    “I was wondering how long it was going to
take you to miss your little one.” Their mother chuckled. “Tracey
still holds the record for the shortest Mommy’s Day Out. Although
Halcyon was playing it cool, I know she was bursting at the seams
to get back to Ashanti.”
    “And my daughter should talk,” Granny Rose
interrupted. “I had to drag her out the house to take some time for
herself.”
    So another round of tattle tales began. The
conversation bounced from one topic to another until Desi became
sober. “I can’t believe I stood in divorce court boo-hooing in
Michael’s arms. My heart was so torn back then, but MJ is evidence
of what God had for us, if we were faithful to His promises. The
Lord is good.”
    “Yes, to some people,” Halcyon mistakenly
said out loud what she was thinking. She shrugged. “Well, anyway, I
guess that is what I get for not being faithful to Christ. If for
nothing but sweet wish revenge, I wish Scott had come chasing after
me, asking for my forgiveness, wanting to work through our issues…
yada, yada, yada, so I could have made his life miserable...”
    “Baby, wishing misfortune on someone else
could hinder your blessing,” Granny Rose warned.
    Halcyon nodded. “I know, but Scott turned
around and married a chick with her own child instead of staying
with the woman who had borne his children.” She frowned. “I can’t
figure it out. Wasn’t that a slap in the face, a punch in the gut,
and a kick in the side. More than once I asked myself what was
wrong with me.”
    “Nothing!” Her mother interjected. “He was
not the one for you.” Sarah hmph ed. “Now, don’t turn this
into a pity party.”
    “I’m not trying to, Momma, and I’m sorry,
Desi.” She sniffed. “But when I’m around this much happiness, I
want it too, but in hindsight, I realize I went about it the wrong
way. I’m the one who flirted with Scott, and chased him and tried
to convince him what a good catch I was. I thought I was in love
with him and didn’t have patience for his feelings to catch