Page 55 of If You Love Me

Rix

Love you all! Hope today is wonderful for you! Look at these boys.

A blurry close-up of Rix’s eyes and the top of her mom’s head in the foreground and Tristan and Flip surrounded by their respective dads and Tristan’s brothers, all wearing holiday-themed Terror sweaters, pops up.

Shilpa

Merry Christmas!

Ash and Shilpa are cuddled on the couch, wearing matching holiday sweaters and drinking out of matching holiday mugs.

Dred

Good tidings from me and Dewey.

She adds a selfie of her and her hedgehog, both wearing Santa hats.

Essie

Me, my spiked coffee, and my sister all wish you the merriest of Christmases.

She has her arm wrapped around her half-asleep sister, who is dressed in pajama bottoms and a hoodie that has Gandalf from Lord of the Rings dressed as Santa on it.

It’s our second Christmas without our mom, and it hurts just as much as it did last year.

Lexi

Happy Holidays, everyone! I’ll send pictures once I’ve brushedmy hair.

Hopefully by then Callie won’t look like she’s been crying.

I send a private message to Dred. She volunteers a lot around the holidays, so she may be already out and about.

Lexi

Merry Christmas. How’s it going?

Dred

At the soup kitchen! Already made two hundred pounds of mashed potatoes. I should be done in a couple of hours.

Lexi

Super excited to have you here with us for dinner!

Dred

Same! I have a pie (made by Rix) in my fridge that I haven’t touched.

Lexi

I hear her pies are legendary.

Dred

I can confirm they are magical. Flip routinely makes himself sick on them.

Lexi

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