THE KEY TO MY HEART

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" Babe, I brought us lunch. I went by the two banks after I left Cindy and Julia's home. Someone has paid money on both of my school loans. I asked my parents when I dropped off fruit and some vegetables to them. They were home for the day enjoying a massage by two of Taylor's employees. They said they had no idea who did that. The employee at each bank would not tell me either. They basically told me it's a present for my graduation. They asked me not to pay anymore because the people who dropped it off would have the rest paid off. I am clueless. We could use my money for our wedding. What do you think?" "I
think a lot of people love you and want to do something nice for you. You deserve it. You do a lot for others without asking anything in return. Whoever is paying your school loans is paying it forward. Maybe for your graduation, you will find out or maybe not. The lunch smells delicious. You use the money however you want."

We started eating our Chinese food and lemonade. I was thinking hard who could be paying off my loans. I knew our parents couldn't by themselves as our wedding would be approaching soon. Julia and Cindy were using a lot of their monies to improve all of their properties. They probably gave some. My wife and I finished our lunch and started working on the rest of our wedding plans. We paid a down payment for our honeymoon in Spain, the flowers, photographer, rings, and food were paid off. We got a banquet room at the Majestic Hotel for a reduced rate, which included the good thanks to Julia and our parents' employees' discounts. We finished addressing all the invitations and placing the self-adhesive forever heart stamps. Alexa said she would have the invitations go out it today's mail with her other bills to her customers. I told her I was off to the zoo to go check on a giraffe to see how her baby calf was doing. Alexa always felt a calf should be a cow. I was the one who got the contract with the zoo. She walked me to my Mazda. We kissed before I left.

" Alexa she asked me if I knew who was paying her loans off?" " My response was don't look a gift horse in the mouth and be happy people love you. By the way, the postal carrier will be here soon. If you have anything to be mauled, please bring it down soon."
" I already did. It's all in the mail room but thank you. I off to go meet a few clients. I won't be back today."

I went upstairs to get my briefcase, keys,sunglasses and cellphone before I left downstairs to the parking garage. I recently hired more employees because the accounting firm was growing. Julia and Cindy transferred some of their accounts to me. Maria and Jane's had the rest. I was busy all day and Jaime sent me a few photos the zoo was going to post of her, the mama giraffe and her calf. Jaime was interviewed as well. She said Jake would be linking the interview to their website. I was excited for my fiancée.

In the Ruiz home, more people dropped off cash and to sign the graduation card. In the evening, Alice called Julia to watch the local news. She had me turned to the station. We watched the interview as we ate our baked chicken and sides for dinner with a glass of wine. We both texted Jaime congratulated her. Julia spoke to Alice and placed her on speaker. We both talked to her, Tim and Jake. Jake told us he just added the interview to the website and photos. He was very proud of Jaime having the zoo and several other huge contracts. With the additional contracts they both added on, they had to hire more employees including vegetarians and recently moved into a bigger building that Julia's stepsons designed with many improvements for them to save monies using solar panels and other items. We were proud of Lance James, Jake, and Jaime. We continue to watch the news and finish our dinner
that we both made.

We were cleaning up when Alexa called to tell us their wedding invitations, which included their engagement photo, were in the mail today. Julia spoke to her privately and told her more cash arrived as well as people signing the card. Julia stated the Porsche would be here tomorrow morning. Jaime would only be working in the clinic. Julia told her we had rearranged the garage when we woke up from our nap it was now ready.
Julia and I played a few games of billiards before we went to bed for the evening.