I never expected our shopping trip to last this long.

And I definitely didn’t expect that everything we were buying would be for me.

I could only stand there with my mouth slightly open as she handed item after item to the saleslady, effortlessly choosing everything she liked as if refusal wasn’t even an option available to me. Every cheerful “Oh, this will look perfect on you, dear” was immediately followed by a firm and decisive, “Bill it.”

The result?

I had become a human ...