Never Change
By Elizabeth Berg
Published in 2001
“You know people like me. I’m the one who sat on a folding chair out in the hall with a cigar box on my lap, selling tickets to the prom, but never going–even though in the late sixties only nerds went to proms. But I would have gone. I would have happily gone; I would have been so happy. I wanted the phone call with the rough voice asking `Would you. . . ?’ “
Suggested by Pam Alexander, Algonquin
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