Lunch was excruciating enough today, as is often the case when, though separated by generations, language, and culture, you are obligated to eat with people you have nothing in common with except a very thin familial tie. But Mother made it all the more painful by asking the ex-husband, and wife, in the presence of the man's parents no less, about how they first met.
Father: You knew that they were divorced. What possessed you to ask such a question?
Mother: What? I was genuinely curious!
Moi: Did you not see how uncomfortable they all looked?
Mother: It was a perfectly good question.
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