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Finally! My mom is taking this Sundance business seriously…

Who was the first person I called to tell about Sundance? My mom. Was she excited? Yes, because I was excited and she loves me. Did she know what Sundance was? Um, I don’t think so.

I know this because she then immediately started talking about this game called Farmville on Facebook, wanting to know when I was going to add her as a neighbor. She said she needed more neighbors to get to the next level. This conversation repeated itself over the course of the next few days. She would scold me for letting my strawberries die and not milking my cow. I hung up the phone each time frustrated at her lack of enthusiasm for this great news. I found myself in the middle of the Denver airport yelling into the phone, “No, I am not going to send you an apple tree or fertilize your crops! No, Anthony is not gonna add you as a neighbor! Do you even understand what a big deal this Sundance thing is?!” She still didn’t quite understand. In her defense she did try, though. She said she had googled it.

Then, one day, she understood. I called her for our regular morning phone call. I was still a little bit saddened that she wasn’t getting it. Then she says excitedly, “Oh, they were talking about Sundance on One Life to Live! Dorian was elected mayor of Lanview and her adopted daughter’s boyfriend was taping a video of her. And she said, “Will this be done in time to submit to Sundance?”” I said, “Now that they’ve mentioned it on your soap opera, do you understand that it’s a big deal?” She was happy and agreed that it was.

Well, at least I’ll never have to convince her of things like evil twins who have been separated at birth who come back after getting surgery to disguise their faces to hide people in secret caves after they’ve been thrown into amnesiac shock from being tossed out of their car after sliding off an icy road. She already knows all of this to be true from her soap operas. Does anyone want to fill in for me and call her to say, “The role of Tina Kapousis will now be played by…?”