Save the date, rent a gown, buy a tasteful gift.

When that big night rolls around, some people find all that

activity to be a lot of fun, but what about the rest of us who'd rather eat popcorn

and play wirtle on the couch in our pajamas? I'm Meg Walitzer and on this selected shorts, something for social butterflies

and introverts alike. Don't go anywhere.

Your listening. You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors

transport us through the magic of fiction one short story at a time.

Save the date.

Three little words arriving most often in your email inbox or physical mailbox on a 4 by 6 piece of

semi-gloss card stock.

That's it. Save the date. Plan ahead, make some space, because someone

you know and love is getting married, celebrating an anniversary, or hosting another sort of

unmissible happening invitation to follow.

Simple.

Of course, that postcard and those three little words can inspire very different reactions,

depending on the recipient.

Many of us receive them with joy and delight.

We send our tuxes to the cleaners

and begin plotting how we might coerce the DJ

to play Purple Rain for the final song of the night.

Others, well, not so much.

More on this in a minute.

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