While we ate Alex asked me, what felt like, a thousand or more questions. He asked me about my childhood and what it was like growing up in Vermont.
"It wasn't awful but I felt like I never got a chance to do things that other kids my age did and felt like I had to grow up way sooner. My mom was a single mother and she did her best with the hand she was dealt. If she wasn't at her job working, she was at home working on her body and appearance in hopes to find a replacement for the man that walked out on her and her daughter. She had this weight fixation, she always thought she could be thinner, fitter, and was never happy with the results of the latest diet trend. She would go out on weekends and leave me at home in bed. The neighbor, who I found out later was head over heels in love wi
