We Knew Before We Knew That We Were Going To Be Together

Being a girl from the poor side of town I resented, was jealous of, angry at my station in life. My father is a mostly unemployed alcoholic mechanic, and my mother an LVN at a nursing home. One of my friends lived in a mansion, pool, tennis court, her own room, bathroom, tv room. Her parents are a corporate lawyer and an oncologist. In the tenth grade we started fooling around. Her mother thought it was cute, my mother thought it was sick. This is how we graduated from high school.

My friend went away to college at Yeshiva and I went to, drum role, work. She finished college, went to medical school, I continued working and went to art school thanks to her father. She finished medical school, went to her residency and I moved to live with her. Her mother thought how cute, my mother thought how disgusting.

After residency we moved to LA where we grew up, had a totally Jewish wedding, after I converted. Her mother thought how cute, my mother? Not so much.