my mom's big adventure....

ok, so we have heard from my mom.....and she is in new mexico....at an elderhostel studying the fiction of tony hillerman....and she had dinner with dear friends of ours who live in albequeruque......in particular a womam i graduated with in 1974.....who is on a cane....and intermittently gay.....which i discussed in detail with the child who asked......she and her partner in the late 70's tried to have a child in vitro...an failed...and they gave us all of their little boy clothes.....which we used twice...obviously......and then they broke up...and there was a moment of heterosexual fervor...in which my friend sent a waterford violet vase that i treasure.....and then there was nothing.....for years......except to my mother......and now my mother has had dinner with her and her siblings...and no message to me....hmm.....am i to assume that all of my relationships turn bad.......eventually.......it is all about me...isn't it?