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It is pretty sunny the next afternoon and I'm not the only one excited as I place another chair a few feet from the first then another and another. In front of me some men are hammering and putting together what I assume is a stage, right now it just looks like a bunch of woods and planks, Elise is waving her hands left and right directing the men as they work.

Some other staff were arranging chairs like me, a few carrying flower vases to the middle of the tables covered with white clothes.

On the far side, Ray is setting up the last of the tables, he turns it to the top, a tall girl with shoulder-length blond hair assisting, Jesse, his girlfriend, I’d met her over an hour ago when they arrived together, Ray doing a speedy introduction and went over the plans for today, it had been a little weird, okay, a lot weird, I managed to hold on to my smile and was so glad when Elise called us to get started with the tables, as I arranged the chairs, I looked up every few minutes to find he