“I like to have a little fun with the telemarketers,” he explains. “He looks forward to this all day,” Mom says proudly, the way you’d talk about someone winning a distinguished work award. “You know how they are—always calling at dinner,” Dad says. Archer looks fascinated and slightly confused. “I don’t know, actually.” Apparently, telemarketers fall under the umbrella of things like juice boxes that Archer’s never experienced. So when the next call comes, right after Mom and Dad explained how this works while I tried to remember why I thought bringing Archer to dinner was a good idea, both
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