Why do you think you blew it? Doesn't sound like it.
Not sure. Probably because I felt more withdrawn than detached during the ten minutes or so that she was here. Withdrawn had become my style the last year of M, so I think I showed her "More of the same" than "Brand new me".
But, hey, she did show up unannounced. At least to me. Turns out my DIL was expecting her.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
