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suggested.
    “Sounds like a plan.” Lizzie smiled as she spread her work
on the table and began her presentation to the O’Grady couple. Going over each
slogan, she watched their faces and saw immediately that they liked her work.
    They spent the next two hours going over the entire
advertising campaign together. They liked her general concept, and combining
her idea with some of their own, the three of them were able to come up with
what they all agreed was a good campaign. Lizzie was ecstatic.
    “I think we will be able to work together,” Shane finally
said after they had reworked the last of the details. “You really have some
great ideas. I can’t believe you came up with that in one night after only
being in our restaurant the one time. You have a natural knack, that’s for
sure.”
    Lizzie beamed after hearing Shane’s words of approval. She
could not wait to tell Rex. “Thank you, Mr. O’Grady.”
    “Call me Shane. When can we draw up the paperwork?” was his
next question.
    “Let me give my husband a call this evening and see what we
can work out.” 
    “It will be a pleasure working with you and your husband if
he is as talented as you are. Your ads are very tastefully done,” he added as
he shook her hand.
    “Oh, yes, he is very talented. He’s been in the advertising
business a long time.”
    Chloe stood up and said, “The dinner crowd will be coming in
soon, we had better let Ryan take a look at the slogans and see how he and Katy
are coming along.”
    Ryan had given Katy an overall idea of what the new
expansion entailed. It was to be a party room, where wedding receptions,
company parties, and other group events could be held. He also discussed the
plans for a new corporate office to be built on the lot next door. After those
two projects were completed, work would begin on the new restaurants that were
to be built in several cities around the country. He was very excited at the
prospect of opening the chain and Katy could tell he had worked hard to make
this business the success it was today. Together they pored over the sketches
she had worked so hard on the night before.
    “Now keep in mind, there wasn’t time for me to order color
samples and swatches. You’ll have to imagine what I’m talking about. But these
rough sketches should give you some idea what of what I have in mind,” Katy
explained nervously.
    Ryan was blown away with her work. She is really good .
Her ideas for the upscale establishment were exactly what he had been looking
for. He had mainly agreed to this meeting to please Chloe and to see Katy
again. When she had told him that Katy was thinking of starting a design
business, he thought it was probably just a whim and that there probably was
not much talent there. But Katy had surprised him with her good taste and she
had proven him wrong. She was, in fact, very talented. For reasons he could not
explain, he was pleased with this turn of events. Intrigued by the woman from
Chicago, he wanted to learn more about her.
    They spent the last hour of their meeting talking and
getting to know each other a little better. “So why is it that you are just
now, at this stage of your life, starting a business? Why isn’t this something
you’ve done before now, if you don’t mind my asking?” Ryan ventured, hungry for
more details about this lovely lady’s life.
    Katy paused before she answered. How much should I tell
this man I’ve just met? How much of her life was she ready to reveal to a
virtual stranger?    
    “Oh, you know how it is. Life got in the way. I was raising
a son alone and didn’t really have the time to take on anything like this.” There,
that was a good enough answer .
    “I take it you’re divorced, then?” he asked. What man in
his right mind would let this little lady get away?  
    Katy winced at the question. She was silent for several
seconds before she quietly answered, “No, my husband passed away several years
ago.”
    “I am so