“Surprise me.”
“Next time,” she said, finishing the last of the pistachio, “I’m bringing you. You can make faces at him from across the table.” mother's bad date
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“No.”
She pulled the carnation out of her hair. It had lost two petals. She looked at it, then at me, and for the first time all night, she smiled. A real one. When a mom goes on a bad date,