Parents nearby Stories

My parents didn’t like her. Lynn was twenty-nine, and I was only twenty-four. We each had taken the long route through college and were finally nearing our Bachelor's degrees from a top-ranked business school. We met in college and, being older than most of the other students, gravitated toward each other. The five-year difference in our ages didn’t seem nearly as much as the difference between the nineteen-to twenty-one-...