“You okay with pepperoni? It sounds boring but Joe’s is fire, swear.” “Don’t worry about me.” “You’re eating with me.” Her smile is sheepish. “I didn’t know you wanted to go eat. I like to leave my wallet at home so I don’t spontaneously spend.” A quick meal is spending spontaneously for her? As I think that, a sense of aversion washes over me. Twenty bucks didn’t always come so easy for me either. My parents lived paycheck to paycheck all our lives, and the little extra they did have, they saved. Maybe I need to remember that next time I pop into the grocery store. I shake off my thoughts.
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