I checked my phone for the 23rd time that hour. Still no message. Hmm. Would the screen blink into life with an affirmation that I was liked back? Check phone again: nope. Crushed.
This sad scene was not me in my teens texting a potential boyfriend. Instead I was a mother of two kids, in my late 30s, messaging a potential new mate. A 'mum friend', to be precise.
This woman I had met at a baby music group with my seven-month-old son. Between bursts of Old MacDonald and Peter Rabbit Had A Fly Upon His Nose, we struck up a conversation. We were both struggling with the carrot-pureeing relentlessness of weaning, and when she rolled her eyes during the hokey cokey, I caught a whiff of a kindred spirit.
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