Marrying Off Mom — Elisabet McHugh

When I was four years old I came from Korea to be adopted. My new mother is a veterinarian and she is single, as in never-been-married. Although she's very organized at work, she is hopeless at home. If I wasn't here to take care of things, I don't know what would happen to her. She'd probably spend the rest of her life looking for her missing car keys, or else starve to death because she forgot to cook. Now I'm eleven. In another seven years I'll leave for college, and then who is going to take care of Mom? By that time she will be thirty-seven, which is almost forty, which is old, and who would want to marry her then ? Probably nobody. Which is why I have to find her a husband. Soon.