Anat is still mulling over calling her parentsThanks to Jerry, Anat now has a heart. Her wedding was three weeks away and she still didn’t tell her parents. Of course, they haven’t spoken to each other in nearly three decades. She wondered if they’d even talk to her. She had no idea what they were up to or how their health was.

2 min readDec 19, 2021

Anat dialed a few of the digits of their phone number. She held the phone for five minutes while deciding if she should type in the last digit. She placed the handset back in the receiver and had a shot of Arak.

Jerry just woke up. She smiled. He ran over to her. He had breakfast and started practicing firing olives. Anat was worried. She wanted him to be calm. She didn’t even understand why he had this power. She was her son. But not by blood. But that didn’t matter. Her love for him and his for her wrote over the blood relationship. They were a true family.

She mailed and emailed all the invitations. She was thinking of doing a dairy wedding. She knows a guy who has connections to a dairy farm. He’s known for getting the best milk and cheeses. Sometimes he’s busy cleaning some campsite. But he usually pulls through.

Meanwhile, Marc and Alana were tired of being continuously tested for COVID-19 to enter venues. Like everyone, they have had enough of the virus. They knew politics played a role in it from the beginning. And now, aså most believe, that’s all it is.

Jay knew about Anat’s wedding. He was planning to make an appearance.

Written by Mitchell Slepian