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  • Lizzie: So the thing about my mother is that she loves a good panic. Seriously. I have never

  • seen her happier than when she thought radiation was going to cross the Pacific from

  • Japan and kill us all. Then there's my dad, who's really calm, smart, and supportive of us.

  • He likes to spend his days reading by his bonsai collection.

  • How these two ever got together in the first place, I will never know.

  • My name is Lizzie Bennet and these are my parents.

  • "My Parents: Opposingly Supportive" Written by Margaret Dunlap

  • What's keeping Mom "happy" at the moment is that she's decided we can't go over to meet

  • Bing Lee like normal people. No. For some reason, Dad has to go over and introduce the

  • rest of us. And he hasn't done it yet. This has been going on all week:

  • Lizzie: And if you do not go visit Bing Lee tomorrow, we may as well resign

  • ourselves to not meeting him until Emily Lu invites us to her daughter's wedding.

  • Charlotte: Charlotte Lu is getting married? Why would Bing Lee be at her wedding?

  • Lizzie: Because he's the groom!

  • So that's been fun. Oh! And Charlotte, apparently you're going to marry Bing Lee. Congratulations.

  • Charlotte: You know, we still don't know what he looks like. Lizzie: Exactly!

  • But fortunately for this odd couple marriage, there is nothing Dad enjoys more than winding mom up. I made a chart!

  • Lydia: NERD! Lizzie: Get out!

  • So then of course when dad actually introduces himself to Bing Lee, he doesn't, you know, tell Mom.

  • Because that would be the normal thing to do.

  • No. He waits until mom is so frustrated over him not meeting Bing Lee that she yells that she's sick of

  • the whole thing and would be happy never to hear the name Bing Lee again. And that's when Dad says:

  • Charlotte: Oh, that's too bad.

  • I met him while he was getting his membership at the club.

  • and he'll be at Ellen Gibson's wedding. Apparently, he's a friend of the groom.

  • I told him all about our girls. There's no way to avoid meeting him now.

  • Lizzie: And now she's back on the Bing Lee: Future Son-in-Law train. Choo choo!

  • Thanks, Dad. I do not believe he went over there and talked about us. I can just imagine that conversation...

  • Charlotte: Hello. I'm your new neighbor. Lizzie: Hello. I'm a rich, successful medical student.

  • Charlotte: I'm well aware of that.

  • In fact, my wife has sent me to meet you so that you can eventually marry one of our daughters.

  • Lizzie: Are they hot? Charlotte: Attractive. Accomplished. Even smart.

  • My Lizzie is getting an advanced degree in Mass Communications, which dooms her to a

  • life of unemployment, so she could use a rich husband like you.

  • Lizzie: What if I'm looking for something more in a trophy wife?

  • Charlotte: Well, her sister Jane is quite the fashionable beauty and would be stunning on your arm.

  • And word around campus is that my youngest, Lydia, is a bit of a slut.

  • Lydia: I heard that!

  • Lizzie: My sister Lydia is not a slut. Happy? Lydia: Yes.

  • Lizzie: So next weekend, our family friends the Gibsons are marrying off one of their daughters.

  • Which serves as another in-your-face reminder to my mom about how pathetically single her daughters are.

  • But there's hope! Because Bing Lee is a friend of the groom. So now, apparently, he's coming. Cannot wait.

  • So tune in next time for...

  • Operation: Matchmaker Wedding!

  • Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire Med Student?

  • Survivor: My Parents.

  • Yeah. Yeah I really gotta figure out how to end these things.

  • But for now, there's...

Lizzie: So the thing about my mother is that she loves a good panic. Seriously. I have never

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