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"Oh, Alma," Bert sighed, reaching forward and wrapping his arms around her in a tight embrace, rather suddenly. She looked like she needed it, and he most certainly needed it at the moment. "Of course I was going to tell you," he insisted. "When it was a good time. But not now. Not at the beginning of the year. I can't believe he said it."

It wasn't that Bert was never going to tell her, honestly. He just kept putting it off. Cutting his hair off last year, collapsing in his office at the end of the year, all of those missed staff meetings... he blamed it all on minuscule things that were just so Bert.