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do.”
    “Great! Uhm…We’ll need to leave rather early to get where I want to go before the sun comes up. Will that be a problem?”
    Before the sun comes up? How early does he want to go? “Uhm…well, I guess not. What time should I be ready?”

Chapter 8
     
    Melissa hung up the phone, excited, but also wondering if she’d lost her mind. He wants to go so early!
    Annie found her a few minutes later sitting in the kitchen with a perplexed look upon her face. “Mellie, who was that on the phone?”
    “That was Dean. He asked me to go on one of his scientific excursions to the lake tomorrow morning.”
    “That’s nice. Is he coming to pick you up?”
    Melissa nodded her head, “Yes…at 4 a.m.!”
    “That is quite early,” Annie agreed. “You still seem excited though.”
    “I am.”
    Annie smiled and started some water heating in the kettle. She was a very wise old woman, and she’d known there was something different about Dean from the way Melissa first spoke about him. She’d seen him when he picked Melissa up yesterday, and she’d also seen the glow on Mellie’s face when she had come home.
    Mellie’s eyes had been shining brightly, but not with unshed tears. They’d sparkled with the light that only came with a new romance. Annie saw that same sparkle in Mellie’s eyes now and she only prayed and hoped that Dean wouldn’t take advantage of her innocence.
    Dean was a professor at Princeton. He was so much older than Mellie, and he only planned on being in the Lake Perry area for six months. What were his plans after that? Would he leave and break Mellie’s heart? Annie hoped that would not be the case!
    “So, you like Dean?” Grandma Annie asked.
    Melissa smiled, “I do. I’ve never met someone like him before. He loves what he does, and he was so supportive when I told him I wanted to go to college and maybe open a florists shop.”
    “What else do you like about him?”
    “What don’t I like? He comes from a big family that is really close, and when I watched him with Happy yesterday, he was good with her. Like he actually enjoyed playing with a three-year old!”
    “What’s not to like? I play with her every day and those are some of the highlights of my life.”
    Melissa smiled, “Mine too.”
    “Mellie, do you know how to tell when you truly love a man?”
    Melissa had spent several hours thinking about that last night. “Hm. No. I mean, I thought I loved Happy’s father and look how that turned out.”
    Annie smiled and then patted her on the shoulder, pouring a cup of hot water and dropping in one of her favorite herbal tea bags. “Let me share some advice with you my grandmother gave me many years ago. When you meet a man, and can’t imagine spending the rest of your life without him in your life – then you’ll know it’s true love.
    But it’s more than just being attracted to someone physically. True love comes from the heart. I would caution you to examine your emotions carefully so you don’t get fooled. There are a lot of men out there that could make you feel good temporarily, but true love remains long after the attraction fades. When you can face even the worst circumstances with someone, and you still love them, you’ll know it’s true and right.”
    “But isn’t the attraction important too? I mean, isn’t that what draws people together?” Melissa asked.
    “Most of the time. But how many times does that last beyond a few weeks, or maybe months? Problems arise, the couple gets to know more about each other, and then they realize they don’t actually like what they learn. Time to move on!”
    “Like changing your clothes,” Melissa added, starting to get where Annie was headed.
    “True love isn’t like that. Take Happy, for instance. Usually she’s a bright, happy little girl. But then there are her cranky days when every turn of the clock results in a new temper tantrum and crying spell. She’s fretful, unhappy, and her only goal is to make