Appetizer
What was your very first job with a paycheck?

My dad signed me and my step-sister up to work at the GM family fun fair one summer. I think I was 13 or 14. My step-sister weaseled out of it somehow. I ended up working the tic-tac-toe beanbag toss for two whole afternoons. I think I made something like $30. And thus, my career as a carny was born.

Soup
Did you ever lose something really important to you?

I had a miscarriage before we had Poppy, and it crushed me. And that’s all I have to say about that.
(Except to say this: I don’t think this question was looking for that sort of answer. But that’s the first thing I thought of. So. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned the miscarriage on here before, and now I’ve just sort of tossed it out there and it feels very strange.)

Salad
What is the best Christmas present you ever received?

Gosh, I don’t know.

Main Course
Tell about a favorite “hang out” place for you and your friends when you were in high school.

I grew up in a pretty small town, so there weren’t really many places to “hang out.” We spent a lot of time at friends’ houses, I guess.

Dessert
Name something that always brings a smile to your face.

Puppies. And rainbows.

The Friday Feast is a weekly meme intended to “feed your mind by asking thought-provoking, mind-stimulating questions.”
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