"Puppy?"Loretta's voice came slow and surprised, like she hadn't quite processed what her ears were telling her."Mama! It's really you!" Anna screamed from her seat, nearly shaking her seatbelt off her shoulder."My goodness, puppy! Aaaaaa!"The inside of the car detonated.Anna's wild shriek collided with Loretta's booming expression over the phone — loud and completely unbothered by the fact that she was standing in the middle of a public terminal. Maureen covered her ears with one hand while keeping the other firm on the wheel, eyes steady on the road ahead. She now knew, with absolute certainty, exactly where Anna had gotten her personality from. Very typical. She smiled through most of it, letting the chaos wash over her like background music, because beneath all that noise, she could see it for what it really was. A quiet, tender moment between a mother and her daughter. She let them have it.---"Mama, you didn't even bother to let your little puppy know you were coming." Ann
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