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Mrs Harris pops up frooodness, it’s you! Sweetheart, you didn’t tell h--she of the tender heart--says woodenly, "Shiraz and Nishi and Chantelle and I were going to go grab some lunch Why are you in the hall director’s office?"
"Oh, I was just, uh, er" Mrs Harris’s face turns the color of my That’s Hot pink nail polish
"Your mom stopped in to ask " I rush to Mrs Harris’s rescue, grabbing a flyer from the top of the pile on my desk "The final farewell ceremony is Saturday at three in the Winer Sports Cohly reco to be a beautiful way for the two of you to say good-bye to your daughter until you see her again at Parents Weekend in October"
I’ directly from the flyer In the opinion ofis a jokethough considering the way so Mrs Harris--sees can’t cope without the to ad apartments near their children’s dorhters transition through their first se up at their child’s instructors’ office hours and derades
So holding a candlelit "parent-parting" cere to do It’s beco a necessity on many campuses
It’s the fact that attendance is mandatory for administrative staff that I find a bit irksome I have errands to run on the weekend, not toto have any proble with the parents I can’t really relate to thesefor their kids Maybe that’s because my own parents were the exact oppositethey couldn’t have cared less what happened totons of money for them, of course But--at least so far as Mom was concerned--it was only the money she cared about That’s why she took off with all of it
If only I’d known then what I do now I’d have had a very different kind of Parent Parting cere the flyer from me "Thank you Yes, this is, er, exactly what I wanted to know"
Behind her, Gold Rolex looks perplexed "I thought you were here for the sahter up for the--"
"It’s so nice that you’re going to lunch with your new friends, Kaileigh," Mrs Harris interrupts hi to take you out to lunch today in Chinatown Reh’s pretty face, which she just as quickly squelches
"That’s okay, Morab lunch together in Chinatown another tihter has stabbed her in the heart
"Oh," she says "Well, let me call Daddy now He and I can join you and your friends It won’t take ayou that new printer you said you wanted, so he isn’t far"