Ever since he had started seeing Alice, we had seen less and less of him. That night, when Mom came into my room to ask me how she looked, instead of just giving a routine “Great,” without even looking, I actually took the time to check her out, and I was glad to see that she did look great. I knew it was silly because Mom’s beauty only canceled out the fact that she was nuts for a limited amount of time, and then guys usually caught on to the truth and bolted, so the fact that Ben had been in our lives for so long meant that he was either (a) incredibly stupid (which he was not) or (b) would have loved her even if she wasn’t a Most Beautiful Person. What was even sillier was the fact that I was still hoping they would hook up.I spent a lot of the dinner trying to get everyone to play the “Remember When” game. (Remember when we went to Martha’s Vineyard that summer and ate steamers and lobster rolls? Yeah, no, not the time Mom threw up over the side of the boat because she’d had too much sangria—the night before that.
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