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We worked a lot at the office today, packing, sorting, buying, delivering, paying, making, talking and writing. After dinner, Chris was going to stay on at the office. Then I remembered that our friends Andrea and Marco were planning to visit us tonight and we hadn't seen them for a couple of weeks. "No, thank you. I'm going to take care of some paperwork. I have some meetings at the office tomorrow."
"Okay." He looked a little disappointed but accepted the answer. "Would you like me to help you pack up?"
"Thanks but no." I watched him pack away a big box of books and other odds and ends he had bought and stored at the office and then I took the box to the basement. Chris followed me down and I set the box down on the cement floor next to the furnace. "Please keep it down there overnight. You can take it to the storage room at the office tomorrow." Chris nodded his head and headed off, leaving me alone with the trunk.
I closed the trunk and started carrying the boxes to the storage room in the basement. I would leave