"Yay," Bridge says with a firm nod. "If they like you even *half* as much as I love you, you'll do fine." The possibility that his parents might not like Xander doesn't even cross his mind, for two reasons. One, how could anyone *not* like him, and two, the Carsons are about as capable of hating people as *he* is. Which is to say, not at all.
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