"Really," I say, following. Mother has never been without admirers over the years, but the poor guys (usually just divorced, just widowed or just awful, period) rarely got anywhere with her and gave up (or were, I suspect, quickly and politely dismissed). My friends always said not to worry, Mother would remarry when she was ready, but I still wonder. When I was younger, I figured she refrained from dating out of fear of ensuing violence from Rob and me, or because it was genuinely difficult to find a man who could stand up to my father's memory. Whatever, Mother didn't even go out on a date
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