Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for April 26, 2022

My mother was 32 when she had me. She also looked older than her age which at the time was 43. I was in 5th grade and acting up (they’d stopped my Ritalin-that wasn’t their brightest idea). My teacher said he was going to tell me grandmother on me. I told him one was dead and the other lived in Jersey. He stopped for a minute then realized his mistake. We actually got a laugh out of it and I wound up being one of his favorite students.