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Jake drove his rental to LAX to pick up Gracie and her new boyfriend, Mark Castellani. Gracie was five years younger than him and Isabelle, and it still blew his mind that she wasn’t born a Rockwell. It had never once occurred to him that she wasn’t his biological sister. Why would it?
Sure, she was more dreamy than the rest of them, lost in her own world of fairy houses and imagination. But she too had greenish eyes, like the rest of them, although hers were on the blue end of the spectrum. She too lived by the Rockwell motto of “laugh so you don’t cry.” All the Rockwells liked to tease each other, to c***k jokes and give each other a hard time. Gracie participated just as much as everyone else. Not only that, but she’d stayed at the family lodge long after the rest of them had left.
