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– My husband, as a man with perfectly healthy self-esteem, is not jealous of me at every pole.

– He only growls,” I can’t help being sarcastic in response, because I still don’t understand why, of all the worthy men – human men! – my sister chose what seems to be the most arrogant moonshiner in the world, and still managed to have two children with him. – And for future reference, Nana, try not to put the words “your” and “Twigson” in the same sentence anymore.

My sister chuckles, apologizes that she can’t talk to me now and find out how it went, and promises to call me back in the evening, when all her “arrogant moonbats” have gone to bed.

But the most important thing she has already said, and I need exactly one minute to collate all the facts. And then everything immediately falls into place. Thank God, because for the first time in my life I was so fatally close to making the irreparable mistake of believing the moonshiner.

I return to the gazebo with my head completely cool and alert, knowing that any offer from Mr. Future Senator is not a gesture of goodwill, not an attempt to negotiate peacefully, but only cunning and cold calculation.