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compare every situation to what happened when
I was younger.”

 
    “Donna, I’m sorry you
had to grow up like that but you have grown into a beautiful young woman.”

 
    “Thanks mom.”

 
    “Now all we need to do
is find you a man then.”

 
    “Actually, about
that…..”

 
    Her mother dropped
everything and smiled at her.

 
    “You do have new
and juicy after all!”

 
    “Mom, enough with that
already.  But I did have a possible dinner invitation yesterday.”

 
    “Really?  Who is
he?”

 
    “Well, if we are
pretending to be girlfriends now I guess I have no choice.  You know the Dellingers , right?”

 
    “Who doesn’t know the Dellingers Donna?”

 
    “Right.  Biggest
family in town and all. Well I told you that I started working for a local
company as a therapist.  It turns out that the company is run by the youngest
of the Dellingers , Nick.  He asked me out
yesterday but I said no.”

 
    “Nick goes to my church.
 How in the world did you say no to a man that cute?  I guess when
you have got a made up mind, nothing is getting in.”

 
    “Its funny mom because
when I used to work at the diner, he’d always come in all the time but I never
knew it was him.  It wasn’t until recently that I found out it was the
same guy.”

 
    “Ok, enough of the back
story, are you going to call him now or what?”

 
    “Right now?”

 
    “Yes right now.  Or
would you rather I call him?  I can invite him for supper tonight if you’d
like.”

 
    “Goodness no mom!
 I’ll call him.  Just give me a minute.”

 
    “Sorry sweetie, I’ve
given you long enough.”

 
    Her mother went into her
purse, took out the phone, and handed it to her before she even realized what
was happening.  Donna took a deep sigh and grabbed the phone from her,
getting up from her chair.  Her mother immediately questioned her.

 
    “Where do you think you
are going?”

 
    “Into the other room.”

 
    She looked at her mother
and laughed.

 
    “I know that you didn’t
think I was going to call him with you standing right there dissecting my every
word.  I am not a glutton for punishment.  I’ll be back when I am
done talking, and for all this, you better make some extra cornbread and maybe
even a cake”

 
    “Well worth it.
 One extra batch of cornbread and a German chocolate cake to go.  Now
you get to dialing honey.”

 
    “I’m going mom.  No
eavesdropping either.”

 
    Donna walked out the back
door and sat on the rocker on the back porch.  She was nervous.  Once
she called him that meant that she was opening herself up to whatever could
happen.  She wouldn’t be able to just change her mind and she would be
changing her whole philosophy on so much in life.  Right or wrong, she
didn’t think her mother really understood the magnitude of what she was doing.
 Or maybe she did.  Donna had never made the decision to do something
different before even though she had thought about doing so hundreds of times.
 Maybe her mother knew that she needed the push.  

 
    Donna scrolled through
her past calls until she saw his number from the previous day.

 
    Now or never I guess.

 
    Donna closed her eyes as
she hit the send button, silently hoping he would save her from the
embarrassment by not answering the phone.  At least she could say that she
tried.  When the phone when silent after the first ring she looked down,
shocked that it said call ended.  Now she just felt embarrassed.  He
probably saw it was her and hung up since she had already rejected him once.
 She turned to go back into the house when her phone began to ring.
 It was him.

 
    “I’m sorry, is this
Donna?”

 
    “Yes it is.”

 
    “Hi this is Nick.
 I don’t mean to bother you but my phone rang just now and it says it was
you.  My phone has been acting up recently so I assumed it was probably
behaving funky still but I wanted to make sure that I