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Which, yesterday, would have sucked for her since it was 90 degrees out with a million percent humidity. Mandy picked me up after breastfeeding her baby and leaving him with her mom.
"Hi," I said, "I think I have heatstroke. What are we doing?"
"I'm having a cocktail," Mandy said.
YES! Because cocktails are good for both breastfeeding and heatstroke.
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As for me, walking for hours through Berlin in the spring is not the same as being assaulted by Ohio Valley haze during peak hours. I left the house at 10AM and went to the post office. I walked to a five mile trail. I talked on the phone and jammed to my tunes. Life was swell.
Until I noticed in the final stretch, seven miles in? Eight? That I was covered in slime, limping, and barely had the strength to lift a Diet 7UP to my cracked lips.
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"Captain Morgan and Diet Coke. Tall glass. Single shot," Mandy replied in a breath.
Because I am both impressionable and indecisive, I had the same. And wasn't at all surprised that by the time I finished the first round and Mandy finished saving a child's life by fielding one of her social work-related phone calls, I felt completely healed.
1 comment:
oh man, i wish i could hang out with you and mandy... i guess that that chance will come soon enough, like this fall if all goes as planned...
have fun with the idols.
xxx
b2
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