PART 1: THE DINNER

The night before my mother was supposed to meet my future mother-in-law, she placed her nicest dress across the bed and carefully smoothed every crease.

“Do you think Clarissa will like me?” she asked.

I smiled and told her the truth.

“You’re impossible not to love.”

She smiled back, but I could see how nervous she was.

Clarissa had insisted continue reading …