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turkey Dan Meyer is, I never would have agreed to go out with him!”
    “You know, this isn’t really very funny,” Rachel said, once we had calmed down and were breathing normally again. “Actually, it’s pretty sad. I mean, this is what we have to look forward to: a full year of going out with total turkeys.”
    “You’re right.” It was a sobering thought, and by the time we had returned our skates and strolled over to Rachel’s apartment, we were down in the dumps.
    “What’s wrong with these guys?” Rachel wailed as we went into her kitchen .
    “What are you two moping about?” Rachel’s mother, who happens to be one of my very favorite people in the whole world, and the woman that I consider to be my second mother, came into the kitchen and sat down at the table with me. “Didn’t you have a good time on your double date?”
    Rachel and I both cast her looks of utter disgust.
    “Fun?” Rachel squealed. “I would have had a great time if it had been just me and Sallie. But those guys ended up ruining the entire afternoon.”
    “It’s true,” I agreed. “We ended up skating together, just me and Rachel, because we weren’t up to chasing after two wild men on wheels. And then they insisted upon giving the waiter at the coffee shop a hard time because they ordered beer and then couldn’t prove they were twenty-one.”
    “Are they twenty-one?” Mrs. Glass asked.
    “Of course not! I think they’re about nine.”
    “It’s really discouraging,” I said. “Why are boys like that?” I gratefully accepted the glass of cold milk that Rachel handed to me.
    “I can remember feeling the same way when I was in high school,” Mrs. Glass said. “It takes most boys longer to mature. I guess these two just haven’t caught up with the girls their age yet.”
    “Most boys! They’re all like that, or so it seems.” Rachel was emphatic. “Right now I feel like putting myself on hold until next year, when I get to college. Who needs to cater to these idiots?”
    “It was a wasted afternoon.” I felt responsible, too, because I was the one who had been swept off my feet by Dan Meyer’s lustrous locks and baby-blue eyes. “Should we take a vow of celibacy?”
    “At least temporarily.” Rachel sighed, then sipped her milk. A little liquid refreshment was making the world look a bit better, but it had nevertheless been a discouraging afternoon.
    “Hey, come on, you two,” Mrs. Glass urged. “You’ll meet some worthwhile boys one of these days. It just takes time, that’s all. Surely you’ve both seen that T-shirt that says, ‘You’ve got to kiss a lot of toads before you finally find the prince.’“
    “Well, considering all the toads I’ve put up with over the past few years,” I lamented, “I’d say I’m about due for a prince.”
    “Me, too,” Rachel agreed. “In the meantime, however, we do have each other. Why don’t you say we save the rest of this afternoon? Let’s go see that new movie that’s been getting such great reviews .”
    “But it’s such a lovely day!” Mrs. Glass protested. “Do you want to spend it holed up inside a dark movie theater?”
    “I’d say we’ve both had enough fresh air for one day. Let’s hear it for chairs and the fine art of just sitting.” I groaned, massaging the backs of my calves. I could already feel those muscles stiffening up, screaming at me, “Sallie, what have you done? We thought you were on our side!”
    “I don’t blame you for being disappointed,” Mrs. Glass said as she stood up and pushed her chair to the kitchen table. “But I promise you that things will change. There will be Prince Charmings, or at least something close, in your futures.”
    At that point all I could do was hope that Mrs. Glass, being older and wiser, was right. But in the meantime, I looked forward to spending the rest of the afternoon enjoying the friendship of another female.
    “Let’s get moving,” I said, starting to look forward to the