He cleared his throat. "What about yours?"

At that moment I realized that I had completely forgotten to call my mother. The last time I spoke to her was on Sunday, when she scolded me that she and her dad didn't know about Ollie's presence in town. Not that I was about to mention it. "I think it's fine... Dad is also at work from morning to night, they have a lot going on in the workshop." It had been like this for a few years and he was happy about it, but sometimes I also felt that he would he should have slowed down a bit.

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