My parents told everyone I was a waitress, for nin…

and joined the table and ate ham and answered questions about the weather. When I got home that night, I did not hang up my jacket first.

I ordered a new apron, same style, same logo, and I hung the old one in my office at the restaurant, right next to the framed deed. My mother wanted it off my body. I gave it a wall.

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