A secret diary? I doubt that; it’s probably her high school poems. I grin
I find out from a stranger that my niece is unofficially engaged.
I’d be furious except this is so par for the course, the only thing I emote is exasperation. Of course my sister didn’t tell me her eldest was dating seriously. I’d figured long ago that I’d find out Lally started shidduchim when she invites me to her firstborn’s pidyon haben.
I text Numi.
Was super fun having the lady I order sourdough from telling me that Lally Perkal is getting engaged to her son. On the bright side, you guys will have awesome bread at Shabbos sheva brachos.
Okay, it was petty, but this is not the first time my sister has kept secrets from me. Her whole buying-a-piece-of-land-in-New-City and building-a-family-estate thing? Yeah, she never actually told me about it, her son did. I wasn’t sure how she planned on getting around that one — what was going to happen when I arrived at her condo with shalach manos only to find she no longer lived there?
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