NaNo '08 - On Point

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This will be the final word count for the day. I wanted to break the 8K mark, overshooting my goal of 2,000 words a day, and I did.

The Dumpling should be arriving within the hour, arriving in New York that is. I was going downtown to meet her at the bus stop, but she called and reminded me that she's a big girl and doesn't need her mama to do that. But she will call me when she gets within a train stop of the neighborhood.

I know. I can't help it. Eighteen years of training to be watchful, loving, and a teeny bit overprotective do not -- I repeat, do not -- disappear just because the subject of that watchfulness, love, and overprotectiveness reaches a certain age or goes off to college.

Oh, I'll be so happy to see her!