It was what my dad always called my mom. Xxx I wanted to take her out for a nice dinner, something a lot more elegant and romantic than Charlie’s, the restaurant we usually ate at. Tanya kind of chuckled. I stood up and reached down for her hand. “Look,” I said reaching my arm out and pointing into the sky, “that’s the north star.”
As Tanya gazed in the direction I was indicating, I held onto the thing gold chain and let the pendant drop into her field of view. In the fall I would start night classes, but Tanya was going to college down state. I clean up the new and used cars that come in,” I answered. The following Saturday Tanya was running a little late which gave me some time to get better acquainted with her mom and dad.




















