When you visit our website, if you give your consent, we will use cookies to allow us to collect data for aggregated statistics to improve our service and remember your choice for future visits. Cookie Policy & Privacy Policy
Dear Reader, we use the permissions associated with cookies to keep our website running smoothly and to provide you with personalized content that better meets your needs and ensure the best reading experience. At any time, you can change your permissions for the cookie settings below.
If you would like to learn more about our Cookie, you can click on Privacy Policy.
Sitting at the table with these people makes me realize just how much I do not fit in with the people around here. The people that my parents are friends with. The people that I grew up surrounded by. Their conversations were like a game of one-upmanship. And it did nothing but irritate me. Comparing the things they had bought… their cars… their holidays… their new watches… the list went on and on. Everything about money. Image. It sickened me. I had seen Autumn standing uncomfortably by the window in the kitchen area, deep in thought, I think how her mother had spoken to her had hurt her feelings, not surprisingly in my opinion. The way that woman spoke down to her daughter was appalling. I had contemplated going to check if she was okay. We had seemed to get along when we spoke briefly