Sweet Compromise

Valerie was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that the "boy" Mabel referred to should be Kieran. She couldn't help but laugh and say, "Mabel, Kieran's almost thirty years old, not a boy."

"That's not too old. I'm in my fifties!" Mabel smiled and gestured to Valerie, indicating that she was so old that it would be no problem for her to call someone thirty a boy.

Valerie laughed again and