![]() ![]() ![]() So she walks in and she’s kind of like, “No… I’m Reni!” and doesn’t really say anything.Īnd my dad is like, “This is actually Abby’s girlfriend.”Īnd she and I both made eye contact at the same time, and we’re both like, “Surprise!” at the same time. And then, I don’t know, he wasn’t even saying anything that was relative to the situation And she walks in with this platter of sushi in her arms.Īnd my grandfather’s kind of like, “Who’s this? Who is this girl? Who is she married to? Is this…” you know, rifling off my brother’s names, thinking she was married to one of them. My grandfather has never met her before, has never seen her face, doesn’t know who she is in the whole wide world. We get to his apartment and somehow Reni, my girlfriend, is holding this gigantic platter of Sushi and she is the first one through the door of the apartment. It was the last thing that I had to accomplish and it was on my mind, and I was putting it off sort of and I didn’t know what to say, and I finally decided to go have lunch with him before I took my flight. So we actually went to go have lunch with him the day that we were leaving, so I was at home for four days and it was the last thing that I had to do. What do I call Reni?”Īnd he was like, “You’ll call her your girlfriend because you need to come out to Irv. ![]() She’s coming to lunch.”Īnd I was like, “Okay. And I brought her to Minnesota and I sat down with my dad, and I was like, “Dad, what do I do?”Īnd he was like, “What’re you talking about? She’s going to come with. And I would still always chuckle and didn’t want to come out to him on the phone and didn’t really know how to react.Īnd so I made a trip home with my girlfriend over Labor Day weekend a couple of months ago. I don’t have enough time.” And I make up an excuse, “I’m studying.” Whatever.Īnd recently, just recently, since I started moving to New York, which is almost a year ago, he started asking me, “Do you have a boyfriend?” And then at the end, he’d be like, “Well, do you have a girlfriend?”Īnd it was kind of like this new thing, and I wasn’t quite sure if it was because I moved to New York, or because he started catching on that I was 24 and never had a boyfriend. And in every single conversation, he’s like, “Do you have a boyfriend? Do you have a boyfriend yet? Where’s your boyfriend?” And usually, we have a phone conversation and he asks how New York is, or school, or wherever we are. And he lives in this apartment complex with all of his old buddies from the old neighborhood and every time I’m home, I make sure to visit him and have a meal with him. His name is Irving and he’s this old, 90-year-old little Jewish man, who still lives in Minneapolis, where I’m from. He was kind of the last one in my family to know. I’m Abby Fink and I’m from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I recently came out to my grandfather. ![]()
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