Loving Blue in Red States
Birmingham Alabama––––––––
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Anne HaganThursday, March 2nd
“WHERE ARE YOU?”
“I got off later than I wanted to. I just found a parking place up the block. There must be a lot of people there.”
“Yeah, you could say that. Gram’s here, Izzy.”
“Great. Just what we needed.”
“We should have figured that she would be. Just try and be polite, okay? Try not to provoke her.”
Isabella sighed. “I might as well just say I’m sorry now, then.”
“Why? What now?” Aslyn was already annoyed that Izzy was late and her mother was giving her hell about it. She didn’t want to deal with anything else. She scanned the sidewalk leading away from the house and up the street, looking for her girlfriend.
“For starter’s, for anything that comes out of my mouth that she takes off
