Chapter 6: Je t’aime
May 2004
As it turned out, Dana managed to graduate just before her thirtieth birthday. Well, not technically—her birthday was in October, and she needed to finish an independent study scheduled over the summer months, but the school agreed to let her walk early anyway, with the other graduates at the end of May.
Around the middle of the month, Dana sat on the couch in the early morning before work, the TV on for background noise, and had finally bitten the bullet and called home. As much as she didn’t like making small talk with her mother, she thought maybe she might have to tell her parents about her impending graduation. They would want to come up, after all, and hell, they might even want to give her a gift of the monetary persuasion.
A girl could hope, couldn
