The phone glowed before it hummed, then it hummed, and did the phone dance across the counter.
Valerie saw it was Adrian and did a happy dance herself.
“Hiya, my globetrotting son. Thanks for checking in with your rapidly deteriorating mother.”
“What’s wrong, mom? Why are you deteriorating?”
“I’m not really,” Valerie said, “I’m just giving you a hard time.”
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