The next day, I had a somewhat unexpected call. My phone rang, showing a name that never failed to exasperate me."Mother.""Andronikos, finally!" Her voice boomed through the line. "Do you really think you're too busy to answer your own mother? I could be dead and you'd not even know."I pinched the bridge of my nose. "You're not dead, Mama.""I may be," she snapped. "Do you ever eat? Sleep? Or do you just brood like your father, work all day and behave like a marble statue?""Mother.""No, don't try to cut me off. I’m serious. You need stability. A wife and children. That is how a man secures his line. Your father married me at twenty-one, Andronikos. Twenty-one! Where is my grandchild? Where is my daughter-in-law? Do you want me to die without—""Ochi pali," I sighed. "This again?”“Yes! This again! You're thirty-eight years old and still, no children, no ring, nothing! If you don't get to it soon, your wife will need a construction crew to raise her hips to give birth.""Mother, p
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