Mom Always started

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I was in college. UC Santa Barbara, best university in California. I had this really awful boyfriend.

I thought we'd run away and live happily ever after. Thank God he got arrested.

Then Daddy would humph and haw and take over. So there he was, in my courtroom, with a despicable public defender failing to come up with an even halfway decent exuse for why his client was driving drunk.

In one ear, out the other, I'd heard it all before, and anyway, the only thing I could think about was this creeps gorgeous girl, sitting front and center, hoping I'd go easy on him.

And mom would interrupt. Actually, I only hoped that until I took a good, long look at your father.

Then I kind of hoped he'd lock up my boyfriend foe a long time.

Then we'd laugh and my parents would kiss and all was perfect in our little world.

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