CHAPTER 17
Well, Lord, my daughter’s right. I shouldn’t make any decisions about whether to date or whether not to date without talking to you first. So here I am, and I hope you’ll forgive me if this is short because I probably can’t keep my eyes open another five minutes.
Derek’s a nice guy. It was kind of him to confront Bowman’s father in the parking lot, and he’s been reasonable about sharing the room at VBS too.
But just because he’s a nice guy doesn’t mean that we should go out. What worries me most is he expressed an interest in me before he knew the slightest thing about me. What kind of man stays unmarried until his age and then attaches to some widow the day after he meets her? Does it mean he’s rash? Stan brought enough spontaneity into my life, not that I’m complaining, but
