Early Sixties

"Mom, why did you marry Dad if you knew he was a dork?"

She says, "I was poor. I had college loans to pay. I was scared."

I am silent.

"It was a different time," she says. "I needed to get married and he came from such a rich family. I needed a family. I didn't want to go back to my family."

I am silent.

"It was a different time," she says.

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