Her smile was quite pleased at his observation, and she nodded. "Oh, they are, definitely. They're still absurdly sweet on one another," Jules told him. She absolutely loved how much her parents loved each other. She wanted that for herself, she'd just never really believed it would be possible for her.
"Oh, umm, like twenty-eight years? My oldest brother, Peter, was a toddler when they started dating. Mum loves to say she fell in love with him first and knew she was meant to be his mum. Obviously, dad agreed." It wasn't much of a secret that her mum wasn't actually Peter's biological mum, especially since Peter was mixed race. People were usually more surprised that she and Thad had been adopted. "Mum and dad wanted a big family, but she had a lot of fertility issues, so she and dad adopted Thad and I, and then they had Violet, their rainbow baby." She couldn't remember if she'd told him she was adopted before. Would he find it strange?