Andy Knight II

Making business and thinking less complicated than people pretend it is.

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@EdgerPoe516859 There has to be more going on here to warrant this level of response

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@TheEdgerPoe @FunAva007 Glass walls for the bedroom?

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@enchantedhottie Just one.

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@enchantedhottie I see that

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@TheEdgerPoe You didn’t say what your kink is.

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@enchantedhottie @AnaDivincienzo I thought Kristin was Kitten?

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@AnaDivincienzo Scooby Doo!!

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@EdgerPoe516859 Can I be invited

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Maci 💋 My POV ❤️
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Manhattan, New York

At 6:30 this morning, Ana @AnaDivincienzo sat straight up in my bed and screamed.

“WHAT TIME IS IT?!”

Jenny @jennyDmond nearly jumped out of her skin. Mia @thonlymiamonroe pulled the covers over her head.

“Six-thirty,” I mumbled.

“I HAVE A PHOTO SHOOT!”

“What time?”

“TEN!”

“Ana, sweetheart. That's three and a half hours from now.”

“Where are my clothes?”

I looked at Jenny.

Jenny looked at me.

Mia started laughing under the covers.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how four perfectly respectable young women began their Thursday morning in Manhattan.

We'd all slept in my oversized king bed. What were four girls doing in bed together?

Sleeping, eventually. 😉

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

❤️

Yesterday morning, Jenny and I headed into Manhattan for work.

We have a company office here, and Jenny was fascinated by the idea.

“Wait. Edgar has an office in Manhattan just for when he comes to town?”

“Not just Edgar. Our people use it when they're working on deals in the area.”

“Isn't that expensive?”

“Yes and no.”

She gave me that look.

I laughed. “It's connected to our home-office systems and servers. When we're buying or selling a business around here, our team has everything they need. Edgar's closed some of the company's biggest deals in these rooms.”

Jenny looked around again.

“So this is where the really serious stuff happens?”

“Sometimes. Other times it's just people arguing over spreadsheets.”

We had a productive morning. Jenny asks thoughtful questions, and I love that she doesn't pretend to understand something when she doesn't.

Then, just before lunch, she asked a much more interesting question.

“What are we doing tonight?”

“Going back to Greenwich?”

She looked disappointed.

“Or,” I said, “we could do some Christmas shopping.”

That got her attention.

Within 15 minutes, we'd gone from shopping to dinner, and from dinner to spending the night at my family's penthouse overlooking Central Park.

Jenny called Mia.

I called Daddy.

And our perfectly ordinary Wednesday began going in a different direction.

❤️

Mia had spent the day exploring Manhattan with Duke.

For anyone who hasn't met Duke, he's my bodyguard. 6' 5", built like a tank, and looks capable of eating an elephant for breakfast.

He's also remarkably patient.

Which is fortunate, because Mia had decided he was her personal shopping assistant.

When we met them, Duke was carrying enough bags to open a small department store.

“Maci! Guess what happened!”

A woman in one of the stores had mistaken him for a professional athlete and asked for a picture.

Mia had enthusiastically encouraged it.

Mia also informed us that he'd frightened a rude customer service person simply by turning around.

“I didn't do anything,” he protested.

“Exactly!” Mia said.

I love that girl.

❤️

Christmas shopping was wonderful.

Jenny takes her time choosing things. Mia falls in love with something, discovers it comes in another color, and immediately has a new problem.

We bought gifts, tried on clothes, and laughed far too loudly in one fitting room.

I found something for Edgar.

No details. He reads this.

By late afternoon, we were at the penthouse.

Mia went straight to the windows.

“Oh, Maci.”

Jenny joined her, looking out over Central Park.

I stood behind them for a moment.

I've been coming here since I was little. Daddy working, Mama getting ready for dinner, me curled up with a book.

To me, it's always been another home.

Watching the girls discover it made me smile.

Then Mia turned around.

“Okay. Which bedroom has the biggest bathtub?”

Naturally.

❤️

Daddy belongs to a private dining club nearby, so we dressed up and went out for dinner. Ana @AnaDivincienzo joined us too.

I loved seeing the girls enjoy themselves. Jenny looked beautiful, and Mia spent half the evening trying to convince us that one of the waiters was flirting with her.

He was.

We talked about Christmas, our families, work, and the things we're hoping to do next year.

At one point, Jenny asked whether I'd always imagined my life turning out this way.

I thought about that.

“No. Not even close.”

“Does that bother you?”

“Sometimes. But there are people in my life now I wouldn't trade for the plans I used to have.”

She smiled at me.

I think she understood.

❤️

Back at the penthouse, we changed into comfortable clothes, and put on music.

We started in the living room and eventually migrated to my bedroom.

There were questions.

Confessions.

Some absolutely terrible advice, mostly from Mia.

And one question about Edgar that I'm still not answering publicly.

Nice try, girls. 💋

But there was something I loved about last night.

Non of the girls felt they needed to impress anyone.

We could be silly, affectionate, curious, and occasionally a little wicked without worrying about how we sounded.

I think women need that.

Friends who can laugh at you without making you feel foolish. Friends who will tell you when you're being ridiculous. Friends who can ask an embarrassing question and trust that the answer won't become tomorrow's gossip.

We talked until well past midnight.

💋 💋 💋

Which brings us back to Ana's 6:30 a.m. emergency.

She's now getting ready for her photo shoot. She's taking this modeling opportunity seriously, and I'm proud of her.

Even if she nearly gave three women heart attacks before sunrise.

Jenny's drinking coffee beside me.

Mia wants breakfast.

And I have a feeling Duke is downstairs praying for a quieter assignment today.

Before we fell asleep last night, Jenny reached over and squeezed my hand.

“I'm glad we stayed.”

“Me too.”

It was a wonderful evening. Nothing we needed to plan weeks in advance. Just a decision to spend a little more time together. I really loved seeing Ana again.

I think we should do that more often.

Now, I need coffee, a shower, and an apology from Ana.

Although knowing her, she'll tell us the screaming was good practice for getting up early.

- Maci 💋❤️

Video by me and #Grok. Thank God for iMovie! It lets me edit out, or at least attempt to hide, some of the duplicates and other weirdness my clearly drugged-up Grok produces.

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@jennyDmond @enchantedhottie Why don't you just block him

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@enchantedhottie Are you working with someone to overcome your avoidant attachment behaviors? I did.

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@GhPMiller @Karungisera2 @grok isolators? How?

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@enchantedhottie Why does Edgar want to marry you? He is an educated man. He knows things medically. You can't be as bad as you describe

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@AnaDivincienzo @TheEdgerPoe @enchantedhottie So you managed to insult your friend, make her fiance sound like a complete degenerate, and present it as a love story.

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@enchantedhottie They had a few good songs

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@TravisNei @JenneCameron @enchantedhottie I guess we will learn in time

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@JenneCameron @enchantedhottie You’re all so much fun to follow! Spencer, I may have missed some context. Does that change anything for Leo and Edgar, or am I reading too much into it? Just trying to follow along

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