Chapter 80
Colby loved every single photograph. Jason’s family loved Colby. No surprise there.
Jason did reach over to hold his hand, on the way home, after the baby pictures. He did not ask whether Colby had ever had a handmade Halloween costume, a family who’d take snapshots of his childhood, a love that radiated from saved memories.
He knew the answer, after all.
Colby just smiled at him, and made his grandmother’s meatball recipe for dinner the following night. Jason hadn’t known she’d ever shared that one with another human being.
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They spent days doing the West Coast publicity buzz, magazines and talk shows and sound bites. They emerged from the apartment and went to interviews and studios and the requirements of the publicity round, together as much as they could, separately if they had to. Fortunately most interviewers were more than happy to have them both on simultaneously, for the story; Jason knew Colby could handle himself, and wanted to be there anyway.