The owner, Sol Zucker, is a longtime patient of my mother's, and after she took out his gallbladder this spring I guess he finally had enough time in recovery to nag her into coming for a stay. We've been driving for half the day, just the three of us, the Hamilton cast recording, and the smell of Bekah's bubblegum in our blue-and-dirt Camaro to get to Hampshire County, West Virginia, and Sideling Springs resort. “That'd be a first,” I say, and Mom smiles and shoots me the look she always does when she's smiling and she shouldn't be. “And maybe the cabana boy was for Sugar,” she says. “Don't remind me.” Like she's not texting him as we speak. “A boyfriend I can't talk to for three weeks,” Bekah says. “I don't think you play the croquet in the woods,” I say. I do not think croquet in the West Virginia woods.” “I hear resort, I think beach,” Bekah says. “You know when I was your age I would have killed for a summer at a resort, but it was always work work work.” “You girls are going to love this place,” Mom says. She's been texting non-stop through the whole drive, soaking up the precious last minutes of cell service we'll have for the next three weeks. She has a magazine in one hand, her phone in the other, and her feet up on the back of my seat.

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