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everything done for tonight. Your mother and I are leaving in about ten to fifteen minutes, and I wanted to touch base with you on our ‘Operation Anniversary Romance.'"
     
    How can you be grouchy when a fifty- year- old man says something like that I wondered?
     
    “Operation Anniversary Romance is a go.” I replied. “After my session in the torture chair at the hairdressers I stopped at the store and picked up candles, yellow and white as requested. Then I was off to the florist where I was immediately accosted by the owner, who is your biggest fan, by the way, there I was laden down with enough boxes of fragrant rose petals and flowers you could easily enter a float in the Rose Parade. After that, I completed my mission at the jewelry store where I was again met by another one of your admirers and pocketed a magnificent, but understated diamond bracelet crafted of thirty large diamonds for thirty glorious years. Little FYI, I also picked out my next birthday present. To reward myself for a job well done I decided to treat myself at Julio’s Burger Palace and bought with your shiny black card a lovely celebration meal that cost you about twelve bucks."
     
    I took a breath and continued. “I will change into my sleek black cat suit in a few hours and break into your house where I will spread sunshine, happiness and romance that will be waiting for you when you get home from your evening out." I said with gusto.
     
    “What would I do without you Willy Dilly,” Cormac said chuckling
     
    “Well, honestly, dad if you keep calling me Willy Dilly you’ll find out what will happen without me."
     
    “I keep forgetting my little girl is all grown up, it seems like only yesterday you came into our lives."
     
    “It’s amazing you keep forgetting that since I’ve been a legal adult for seven almost eight years now. Do we need to start looking into Dementia Care Centers for you?"
     
    “Always a comeback." said Mac
     
    “Yup, I learned from the best." I answered. “So when are you leaving? I want to get a few shots of you old dogs for prosperity."
     
    “Ten minutes,” he answered
     
    “All right, channel your inner models and you can Vogue it up for me on the front lawn in five,” I said hanging up the phone and going into my bedroom to search out my digital camera.
     
     
     
    Five minutes later I walked around the pool and gardens to the front of my parents’ house with my camera in hand. Noticing my parents weren't out yet I decided to snap a few pictures of the main house. Both our houses were stuccoed, like almost all houses in Arizona, but while mine was a bright white my parent’s house was a rich terra-cotta colored. The hacienda also had the standard red roof tiles but in place of shutters there were blue Mexican tiles that outlined the windows. The setting sun in the background made the house shine with a soft pinkish -orange warm glow.
     
    Voices interrupted my impromptu photo shoot of the house. I swung the camera around to the large wooden front double doors and saw my smiling parents all decked out in their finery.
     
    “Woo, check out the two of you. You both look gorgeous as ever, my compliments as always.” I said ending with a low whistle and started snapping away pictures.
     
    My father was wearing in a dark suit with a bright white dress shirt. A green paisley tie completed his ensemble and brought out the green in his eyes more than ever. His dark hair was just showing signs of gray around his temple and sideburns, but he was still in fantastic shape. At six feet three inches there was no sign of softening anywhere on his fit body.
     
    My mother was his perfect compliment. Cecily had tied her dark red hair in a classic chignon which seemed to emphasize her defined cheekbones. Her emerald earrings and matching pendant sparkled around her neck and set off her cashmere wrap dress of the same color beautifully. Her black leather stilettos on her feet made her frame look longer and