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girl?”
     
    He sounded miserable. “Just another girl. You don’t know her. You don’t need to know her. I really think I’m falling in love with her, to tell you the truth. She’s prettier than you, she’s sweeter than you, and she lives in my neighborhood; she isn’t a richie like you are. I don’t feel like I have to live up to her lifestyle when I’m with her. Listen, I know we were talking about getting married and all that, but I didn’t really mean it. I don’t feel like I’m good enough for you and I never will be, so I think it’s best if we just call everything off right now, okay?”
     
    She choked on a sob and trembled as she held the phone against her ear, her eyes shut tight, trying to hold in the riptide of pain that was coursing through her. “How could you?” she whispered. “I love you!”
     
    He was quiet as she began to sob. Her chest heaved with the weight of her broken heart and sorrow, and she covered her face with her hand, sliding down off the bench onto the grass beside the pond and laying on her side.
     
    Wilson did not cry, but his breath grew very short and raspy. “Listen, I gotta go. Don’t call me anymore, okay? Just… just go live your life and be happy. I’m glad I had you while I did. I’ll miss you,” he said quietly.
     
    She didn’t hear him hang up as she sobbed into her hands and arms, lying on the grass. Her phone shut itself off and it seemed like an eternity before she felt a large warm hand on her back.
     
    “Baby, what’s wrong? Why are you crying? What happened?” her father asked her. She had cried so hard that her face was swollen and her eyes were red. She rolled over slowly and let her daddy pick her up into his arms. He held her and rocked her back and forth, and then he reached up and wiped her tears away.
     
    “Come on now, it’s going to be alright. There’s nothing we can’t fix. Come on, baby, tell me what happened. What’s got you so upset?” His voice was low and soft and it soothed her, like it always had.
     
    “Everything,” she whispered and then looked up at him through her soaked eyelashes. “Wilson and I just broke up. He said he found another girl! Daddy, we were talking just this morning about getting married! How could he do that?” She began to cry again.
     
    Samson rocked her back and forth some more and held her to the solid wall of his chest. “It’s alright baby girl. It’s alright. Boys don’t make the best decisions sometimes, and if he let you go, well that’s the most foolish thing he could have done, but it only means that you have a chance to find someone better; someone who will really love you, and that’s the best thing you can hope for, honey.”
     
    She looked up at him again with irritation on her beautiful face. “Daddy! Do you know that Mother told me today that I have to date some stranger? She said she has this old business acquaintance that has a son and she wants me to go out with him and date him so that our families can do better business! It’s awful! Did you know about that?” she asked, searching her father’s eyes.
     
    He closed his eyes for a moment and nodded. “I did know about that. She talked with me about it. I’ll say this, baby girl, sometimes, especially when we are young, we can’t see as well or as far as those who are older and wiser than us can see, and oftentimes when we are young, we are ruled by our hearts more frequently than our minds, and it can lead to trouble. She’s not trying to hurt you, baby, she would never do that. She wants what’s best for you, just like I do, and she thinks maybe he might be a good boy for you to spend some time with.”
     
    Jillian felt crushed beneath all her grief, but she always listened to her father. “Daddy,” she said quietly and sniffed, “do you want me to go out with him?”
     
    Samson looked away for a moment and then looked back at her. “I want you to be happy. It looks to me like that boy Wilson didn’t