Why not try it? Maybe the younger guys will appreciate her more? I open my computer and go to the Apple store. How do people afford this? It will be delivered later today. They came as a set: a big, overstuffed gray microfiber sofa, and its matching loveseat. As I look around the room, I realize that I have chosen every piece of furniture by myself: the large blue and white shag rug under the rectangular faux marble coffee table, the white pedestal dining room table surrounded by four identical sea blue velvet upholstered chairs.
I am happy with the home I created for me and my son, so why do I feel guilty? Surely not, but my logical brain, the part trying to make sense of the nonsensical, reaches that conclusion. An iPhone! Something I never liked.
How much of herself did she swallow to please me? When did she change? Was it because of me? Did we become more mommy and daddy than husband and wife? Her new phone just arrived. I always wanted everything to stay the same. Change sucks, but Amy is like a pinball, ricocheting from one experience to another, one job to another, one pandemic Airbnb rental to another.
I was happy to do it, and rented a car online. It turned out that I had reserved a car for that day, but a year in the future! She just called a car service and had them pick up her dad and his girlfriend on the way to the cemetery. I sat up front with the driver, and the three of them sat in the back. I heard her dad ask about the rental car, and Amy said she changed her mind and asked me to order the car service.
Before we met, he was the saver, the guy who maxed out his k, the one with a financial advisor. I cashed out my k twenty years ago to party in Paris for a year. My father would say I was irresponsible. I am Do 38 year olds speak with emojis? You look cool. His voice is really deep, and so damn sexy.
