Pam is seeing someone, but she’s not talking about it. Of course, her friends know, but she has not told her parents or her sister, Wendy. She would tell her father, Charles, because he doesn’t pry, but then he would tell her mother, Helen. As for Wendy, she can’t keep a secret from anyone, Helen least of all. If Helen knew, she would pester and pass judgment, so Pam is keeping John from her. She’s done being judged. Well, almost done. She’s working on it.
John is not Jewish. For Helen, that’s a deal-breaker—but this isn’t Helen’s deal to break! He is not young, but, at fifty-six, Pam is not young, either. He is mostly bald. His knees are bad. He’s heavy, and he has a little twitch when he…
