The Marrying Kind (The New York Times, 22/03/2010)

The Marrying Kind
LISA BELKIN

My mother has a sly way of backing into major announcements. “I’m renovating my kitchen” was her way of introducing the fact that she and her beau were moving in together several years after my father died. A year or so later she said, “I’m spending the morning finishing paperwork, so this afternoon we can go ring shopping,” which was her way of warning that a sapphire solitaire would soon grace her ring finger... (Más)