I thought I knew you well. Obviously I was wrong. For your birthday, I bought the fancy caramels sold in the red tin. They were pricey.

“Yuck,” you said. “These are the imported ones.”

So now I have no boyfriend and a half-empty container of the most delicious caramels imaginable.

Roberta Beach Jacobson (she/her) was born in Massachusetts, but has also lived in Oho, Illinois, Iowa, and Europe (Germany and Greece). She is the author of Demitasse Fiction: One Minute Reads for Busy People. She edits Five Fleas Itchy Poetry and smols poetry journal. In her blended family, Roberta is the mother of two, grandmother of five.