“Whenever you talk to nana on one of her birthdays – her real name, by the way, is Antoinette Frances Holzworth DeMaio, though she’s better known as Tebby – she’ll tell you how old she is, quickly followed by ‘Ain’t that revoltin’? Da woyums should have me by now. I should be playnt-ed. Why ain’t I playnt-ed yet?′ ‘Because the Lord doesn’t like complainers,’ my mom will say.”
