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Alexia.
"I had a talk with the wedding planner yesterday and let me just say, the lady knows what she's doing," Luis said as she poured a bit of milk into a bowl and mixed it all together.
I laughed. "I almost thought that you were going to complain."
"Why would I complain?" She began to mix the dough. "The woman's a goddess."
"I was worried that you wouldn't like her."
She looked up at me and grinned. "Well, despite being a chatterbox, she's damn good at her work."
"You're a chatterbox as well." I laughed and got the bowl from her before pouring it's contents into a baking tray.
Luis and I were baking cupcakes for desert. Tonight, we were all gathering for a family dinner at my house and Luis and I decided to cook up something more refined than our everyday meals.
I was a little disappointed that Michael's dad couldn't make it. He said that it was because he was busy but I felt like it was be
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