You could hear them exhale when he finally sat down. They had invited him on express condition of silence. They should have known that he couldn't control himself.
But today, somehow, ego yielded to sentiment. His story about the advice he gave on the cruise hit just the right note. And she began to cry.
Story Notes:
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