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Authors: Jennifer Foor

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Diary of a Male Maid (20 page)

Karrie went back to New York the Monday after my release. By Tuesday, I was packing all of my belongings into a rented trailer and moving to New York so that we could be together.
 

I had no money saved.
 

No jobs lined up.
 

Nothing!
 

My first week living in New York didn’t go very well when it came to job hunting. Nobody was hiring someone with no experience. I thought about being a cab driver, but didn’t have the funds to get started and I couldn’t ask anyone for financial help.
 

While Karrie went to do her internship, I sat around on the computer all day checking my options. Right after taking a break for lunch, I got an email from some address I didn’t recognize. Apparently, Mrs. Jones knew a publisher, who for some reason or another wanted to publish my story.
 

By the time Karrie got home that night, I had written the first five chapters. Four weeks later, I submitted the whole manuscript. They gave me an advance and after two months of hard work, my book came out. It made the best sellers list the following month and it is still high in the rankings.
 

I never considered myself to be a writer, although after writing The Diary of a Male Maid, everything sort of fell into
place. Karrie and I used my advance to put a down payment on our own place. I had plenty left over to pay our expenses and then, once the royalty payments started coming in, we started banking everything.
 

In the meantime, I re-enrolled in college and changed my major to prelaw. Sure, I had a long ways to go if I ever wanted to be a lawyer, but while I was in school, I continued earning money off my book.
 

Karrie and I had lived together for two years when that summer date came along. We’d just bought our first house in a little town off the beaten path of the big city. A week before the big day, Karrie was offered a job at a huge design firm about thirty minutes from our home.
 

We were married in Maryland, on the beach of Ocean City, in front of all of our friends and family. Karrie looked beautiful in the dress that she designed and made herself. I swear I’ve never seen anything more perfect than she looked on that day. I have the pictures to prove it, too.
 

I surprised her with a trip to the Virgin Islands for our honeymoon. We swam in crystal clear water and lounged on the sandy beach all day. By that time in our life, we both started to open up about the bad times we’d been through. Karrie was my wife and I was so glad that she’d always been there for me. She understood better than anyone.
 

I released my second book after we came home from our honeymoon. It was a fictional crime story about a falsely accused man, who was serving a death sentence. Sure, it had similarities to my story, but my fans loved that I came out with another book.
 

Once Karrie became pregnant with our first child, I decided to slow down on the law degree and spend my time at home writing. Karrie went to work every day while I stayed home and took care of our beautiful daughter, Abigail. Being a daddy was both easy and difficult and I soon realized that nothing compares to looking into your child’s eyes and feeling that love looking right back at you.
 

Abby’s being an only child was short lived. Her brother, Shayne, was born thirteen months later. Two in diapers left me with little writing time, but I managed to put out my third novel right before Shayne turned six months old.
 

I’d managed to make enough money for Karrie to start her own design firm. We moved to a bigger house that included a studio for my wife to work out of. She started specializing in wedding dresses and being that we’d met so many famous people through my success, the lists of clients were huge.
 

So maybe my choices five years ago had been bad, at the time. Still, when Karrie and I sat down at night and played with our two perfect kids, we wouldn’t change a single thing that got us to this exact moment.
 

Being a male maid, for even a short time, had sealed my future and made me a very rich man. Nowadays, my wife claims that I’m her live in male maid. Somehow, hearing that
makes me smile, especially when she calls me Sebastian and meets me in the bedroom.
 

 

The End!
 

 

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Jennifer Foor lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her husband and two children. She enjoys shooting pool, camping and catching up on cliché movies that were made in the eighties.
 

 

 

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