my great aunt: well, you’re an adult now!
me: I’m a grad student. that’s several notches below adult.
Twenty one years ago, my grandparents bought a house in a southern Florida suburb and every December since then, my entire family on my mother’s side descends upon this house like a flock of chatty and extremely sporty locusts. It is a weeklong living and breathing equivalent of having your height measured against a door jam. And the person measuring your height doesn’t understand why you hate playing golf.
-Mallory
