With the way the media bombards us with skinny, skinny, skinny, it’s all I could think about. “As I said, I at last figured out that body type doesn’t matter as much as I thought it did. As she was curled up in a chair, she was glad that she looked the same as she did before she went back in time. They snuggled up on the well-worn, comfortable chairs and couch and waited for Kathy to begin. They opened a bottle of wine-club soda for pregnant Elise-and went into Olivia’s pretty living room. When Elise finished telling her story, she turned to Kathy. Her mother would show up every day with “suggestions” about how Elise should live her life.Īfter a lot of talk, she and Alejandro, Diego and his wife and children, and three of their employees, decided they were going to move to Fort Lauderdale so they’d have year-round work. She knew that taking it would put them under obligation to her parents. The parents offered to buy Elise and Alejandro a big house nearby, but they declined. But then, unlike his father, he was an asset to the business. Carmen and Kent were going to move into the house on the property of the parents and Kent was allowed to keep his job. As for Elise, she was so happy with her new life she could walk away from them and their money-and they knew that. She didn’t dare look at Kent when she said that because he was still terrified of losing his job. She told all four of the parents that they had to give up their snobbish racism or they were going to lose their only children. He sat quietly and listened.Įlise went on with her tirade. Since Elise’s father had spent three days in jail and was now facing possible prosecution for an attempted kidnapping, his attitude had changed. “We don’t have to listen to this,” Kent’s mother said, but he clamped a hand on her shoulder and made her sit there. “Probably because that’s the only thing I ever did that got approval from you.” “Did you even once think about what Kent and I wanted?” Later, you decided that your kids would marry each other.” She used her height to loom over the two women. “When you two were in college,” Elise said, “you concocted a plan that you’d marry men who were either rich or aristocratic, and you did so. Come what may, he’d decided to take a stand. For the first time, he was on Elise’s side. The two mothers sat on a couch, the fathers in chairs, and Elise stood in front of them. The best part was at the end, when Elise finally stood up to her mother. When the women were settled, there was a mutual agreement that Elise should go first and she had them laughing about walking in front of Alejandro in her underwear.
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