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Received Message from:Alice
Darling, I wish you wouldn't do things like this. 11:31

Sent Message: Why? 11:33

Sent Message: It's just acknowledging the fact that of the extended Molloy family, we're not the ones going viral because all of a sudden we've decided we're the old gay version of Leo DiCaprio 11:33

Sent Message: Should we warn this guy, whoever he is, about what he's getting into? 11:34

Received Message from:Carrie
Idk, I think Aunt Frankie would have a good chance of going viral if TikTok found out what she got up to with her Aquarobics instructor on that one church trip 11:37

Sent Message: That's your mom's side of the family, my dear, not the Molloys :) 11:39

Received Message from:Carrie
Whatever, I'm not getting involved in any of this 11:40

Dad's a grown man, Jenny, he can make his own choices 11:40

I stopped expecting anything else a long time ago 11:41

At this point I'd be amazed if he ever actually RSVPs to the wedding 11:42

Received Message from:Debra
Your father and I spent a lot of time discussing ethical sexual praxis in the 80s, you know 11:42

Sent Message: DEBS GROSS 11:43

Received Message from:Carrie
Jfc, mom 11:43

Received Message from:Debra
I'm just saying, you young people didn't invent sexual relations 11:46

People have always had needs 11:47

Even during the Reagan Years 11:47

Especially during the Reagan Years 11:48

Received Message from:Carrie
Please don't call it "sexual relations", mom. 11:48

Ugh. 11:49

Received Message from:Alice
Carolyn, do you want me to call your father and ask him to RSVP? 11:53

He generally picks up when I call him. 11:54

And I'm sure your caterers will need a final headcount very soon. 11:54

Received Message from:Alice
Darling, is this helping at all? 11:56

Sent Message: Well it makes me feel better, mom, does that count? 11:57

Received Message from:Debra
I'm not sure it's healthy for us to think of other people as problems 11:59

Received Message from:Carrie
Omg, Dad just messaged me to RSVP 12:01

He said he 12:01

THINKS 12:01

He can make it 12:02

Sent Message: He thinks he can make it to your wedding? 12:02

Sent Message: His daughter's wedding? 12:03

Sent Message: Which he has known about for 18 months? 12:03

Sent Message: I will kill him. 12:03

Received Message from:Carrie
He also wanted to know if he could bring a plus one 12:03

And I played dumb like 12:04

Oh I haven't seen any internet gossip in the last 24 hours 12:04

And said 12:04

Sent Message: This is Thanksgiving 2018 all over again 12:04

Received Message from:Carrie
Oh, is there someone in particular you wanted to bring along? 12:04

And he said 12:05

And I quote 12:05

'Thx sweetheart you can make the invitation out to Daniel and Armand Molloy' 12:05

Sent Message: What 11:33

Sent Message: ... did... did Dad get married again? 11:33