"Welcome home my little Clam, how was your date with your little human?"
"Chum-week snuck up on her so she was too sore to do half of what we'd planned. We mostly ate ice cream and caught up on podcasts."
"Ugh. It's a wonder the dangly-males of the species didn't all throw themselves into the sea eons ago - I can't imagine being around humans during that biological dysfunction."
"Mum!"
"Your Ann is lovely though, of course."
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