22. I Want it All, and I Want it Now
When I was little and getting glasses for the first time, I remember seeing a pile of cases and looking through them. There was one I really wanted but didn’t want to ask for because money was tight. There was also another, which I thought was the strangest and ugliest of the bunch. I kept opening and closing it while we were waiting in line, trying to figure out who had thought up the design for it.
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Eventually, we got to the end of the line, finished our business, and left. The following week, she picked up the glasses for me–and also the glasses case I had kept looking at instead of the one I had wanted. I said nothing about it; I treasured that thing until the day it fell apart because the fact she had been paying so much attention to me meant everything.