So Lydia has a new boyfriend. We haven’t met him yet, but he already gets a big thumbs-up from us for wanting to help her paint her bedroom, a task that’s been hanging over my head for months. As a matter of fact, he’s upstairs right now, hard at work (I assume), but we’ve been asked — nay, commanded<\/i> — to play it cool and keep our distance. I’ll mosey up in a bit, all nonchalant-like, to see how things are going, and I’m sure I’ll thoroughly mortify my daughter in the process, despite the fact that I cleared my wardrobe choices with her in advance and I’ve promised to speak only Swedish. See, it’s not really my clothing or my speech that she finds unbearably awkward, but my very existence. Because, of course, she’s the only teenager in the world who has something so humiliating as a mother<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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