The Holidate Pact
"Major holidays only. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter if your family does that. Maybe a couple birthdays. We set ground rules. No feelings. No sex—that complicates everything. We keep our real dating lives completely separate. If one of us meets someone for real, we end the arrangement, no drama. One year. Twelve events, max. Then we stage a calm, adult breakup and go our separate ways."
I pick up a fry, dunk it in ketchup, buy time. "And we’d have to sell it. My mother can smell a lie from three states away."
"I’m a terrible liar," he admits. "But I’m willing to study. We’ll make a dossier. Favorite foods, childhood stories, how we met—Target returns line stays, obviously, it’s too good. We
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