always family

It was good to feel home. Betty was happy for Ollie to call her place home. Of course, she'd never expected to be a new mother again.

Finally, her youngest son Dewey was coming around to accept his adopted brother which came along Ollie's father too, Ed.

"Are you ever gonna get married?" Dewey asked.

Of course, Betty told him he might jinx it. She was OK, being a single mom. Naturally, she reminded him she'd always intended to be married, yet it seems those were very long engagements that never went anywhere.

But it was different this time. She wasn't waiting, all alone for some destination in the name of marriage.

Ed was right here in her life. And he was her best friend. Even if she never spoke of it.

"Well, if you're Ollie's guardian, then I want to be your guardian," Ed spoke about their situation with  Dewey in earshot. "Maybe the time is now for us to get married."

Possibly, it wasn't the most romantic proposal Betty ever got (and she did remember the romantic ones, but it never amounted to anything.) Betty only smiled. She was afraid to ask him if he was serious. But he wanted to apply for a marriage license the next day.

Maybe her streak of bad luck was over. Maybe she'd be married before Labor Day.