years you have been telling the Gods honest truth and none of us, not one of us believed you. Can you forgive me?”
     “There is nothing to forgive daddy,” I whispered. “I just hope he comes back.”
      Then my brother Wallace spoke in the matter of fact way that he had, “Locke is a carp Lola, did you know that your boy was a carp?”
     “Well his daddy was a carp so I figured this might happen sooner or later,” I replied and then no one said anything else for a long time they just stared out at the pond and jumped a bit every time a bubble popped up.
      And that was where she always ended the story and yes my daddy did come back in the morning....

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