“I’m not anti-dating, I’m just. . . busy. I was engaged once. Before grad school, an old family friend, and my first boyfriend.” “What happened?” “He wasn’t what I thought. Didn’t like that I wanted to go to grad school and work for my dad. Wanted me barefoot and pregnant. He was intimidated by. . .” She waves her hand in an encompassing gesture in front of her. “He didn’t want me to be in charge.” My mind paints a very clear fantasy, unbidden, in which Vanessa and I live in domestic bliss. I’ve quit my job, just for a few years, just until the youngest is in pre-school, and Vanessa runs the
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