“Because. That’s what Auntie does. You know that I
help people fall in love.”
“Yeah. You should help my parents.”
My heart stops. I don’t think anything could help
Mandy and John. They’ve fought since day one. I thought they
were the worst match ever, even before I started working for a
dating website for a living. It was pretty obvious to everyone
that they wouldn’t last six months, but then they did. They
were going strong, albeit with pretty rank fights and breakups
in between, for two years before they got married. They had
Tildy six months later. I’m not saying they wouldn’t have
gotten married anyway. That’s just the timeline. Long story
short, the fights got so intense that the relationship was more
fighting than anything else. Like the people who ask if you’d
like some fries with your ketchup if you like it too much.
That’s them. Would you like some good times with your
fighting?
“Honey…” I try to think of something to say, but
explaining to Tildy why she?
??s staying with me for the week
while her mom packs up her stuff out of the house because her
parents are splitting up for good and getting the big D is too
complicated for right now. I’m already late and I’m
completely out of breath from running.
Mandy asked me if I could watch Tildy since I work
from home and just go into the office for meetings. The office
is incredibly small as the company is still establishing itself,
only in its second year. Most of the room is taken up with
hardware and servers and blah, blah, blah stuff I don’t
understand. The space for actual people is tiny and we were all
