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ROMANCE & WEDDING welcome to the family
South Mississippi Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute and she was participating. At the first break of the morning, she came up to me and said, ‘I was always supposed to have a redheaded daughter named Jennifer; I just didn’t know it was going to take you this long to show up. You need
to come home and meet my son. I don’t care which one.’ I wound up staying with them during Hurricane Katrina as I was new to the South, and three years later I started dating one of her sons.”
– JEN ALLEN
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IN-LAWS
M story by Kelsey Sunderman-Foster
eeting your in-laws for the first time can be pretty daunting. Sometimes this first meetings goes off without a hitch, and others — well,
sometimes things don’t go according to plan. We heard from some of our readers on Facebook who told us the good, the bad and the ugly of
meeting their future in-laws for the first time.
“My mother-in-law introduced me to her son! I was interning with the
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