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“All right—but one night only.”
End it with Pul first. God girl your so messy!
“Not on your life, kiddo. You said yes, and I’m holding you to it. It’s me tonight . . . and every night for the rest of your life—or mine.”
Foreshadowing? Maybe Julian dies unexpectedly?
Julian and I stood in the city hall with our best friends to support us, and a judge said the words that would bind us together until “death do you part.”
BITCH WHAT?!?!
He would be crushed when he found out.
OOOOF
And where was my mother who was the cause of everything gone wrong?
Not loving this. This isnt aa good look for you Cathy.
And tonight I had to sleep with a man I didn’t even like when he wasn’t on stage, and dressed in costume, and playing the role of a prince.
You didnt hve to marry him.
“Let me in! I know what you’re doing, why all the secrecy?”
Ugh let her take a dump in PEACE.
and this huge fat black lady came and took us to her ‘doctor son.’
Oh my god cathy dont talk about Henny that way.
What kind of person was I, that I could turn from an honest, sincere, honorable man and rush headlong into the arms of someone I suspected was a brute?
A messy one.
was actually an abortion.
It wasnt an abortion it was a miscarriage.
“Come, sit beside me for a while. Hold my hand. Give me time to realize it’s all over between us.”
MESSY MESSY MESSY
How could you be so intuitive when we were locked away and so damned dumb now that we’re out!
XD Chris the voice of reason!!!
Carrie if she would like to come and live in New York with us, but I had lost her trust; I had betrayed her too many times already and she let me know it.
This is probably the worst part!
“I don’t want you sleeping under my roof!” stormed Julian. “I don’t like you and I never have and never will—so get the hell out and forget you’ve got a sister!”
Oh my god. Thats AWFUL.
“That’s the first thing my eyes go for once they get past a fabulous face. Carrie, do you realize you have a fabulous face? I just might kick out my wife and marry you.”
FUCKING FOUL.
It was a remark that didn’t sit well with me. Many an argument we’d have because he cared too much for very young girls.
Oh my god!
I’d never before thrown in his face that I knew about his debaucheries with very young girls.
OH MY GOD!
I’d dragged him from the kitchen after he fell asleep from all the sedatives I’d dumped in his coffee.
Fucking hell! But also LOL!
I did love Julian!
Fucking IDIOT
“It’s all right,” I said dully. “If he hadn’t done it this way, it would have been another. I should have known and warned you. There was no life for him if he could never dance again. No life at all.”
He never loved you. Thats the saddest part.
Another death on your record, Momma!
Like i get it but you can't blame Julians death on your mother!
Life seemed to me nothing without a man.
CLEARLY
I didn’t want Chris to find anyone else. I wanted him with me always—just
God youre so selfish!
And in no way could Chris and I give him as much. Chris didn’t know about my sky-high debts.
Just like your mother!!!!
“No,” I said in a small voice, “not while Chris is in the house.” He nodded stiffly, then said good night, and I went to lie awake until almost dawn—wondering how I could solve the dilemma I was in.
PICK ONE DAMNIT AND STOP PLOTTING HOW TO SEDUCE YOUR MOMS HUSBAND. Christ almighty.
“You are like a rose, Cathy. All the bees come to you, and they don’t even see me down so low. Please don’t get married again before I have my chance. Please don’t be around if ever some man looks my way. . . . Don’t you smile at him, please.”
OOOF
when you feel grown up enough to act adult, come back to me.”
I dont like the way he said that.
“My wife is a ballet buff,” he went on. “Actually, I didn’t care much for it when she first started dragging me to every one of your performances.
Oooh interesting development.
My wife’s mother isn’t well and needs some attendants. As soon as you’ve settled your account with me, you can say good-bye to a man who obviously brings out the worst in you.”
THE GRANDMOTHER IS DYING.
Every minute I’ll be loving you and missing you. . . . Just remember, when you want me I’ll be there.”
Idk maybe Julian was the most realistic because i have yet to meet a man who would put up with this much bullshit. She walks all over chris and paul and they continue to vye (vie?) for her acception.
I didn’t deserve him.
You got that right!
She showed us that five-room cottage first and immediately I was won over.
For rent right? Why you need all them rooms???
Already I was finding out that one hundred thousand, after paying all the accounts I had to settle and putting the down payment on the cottage, was not going to last long.
AND NO JOB. JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER.
In three weeks we had both settled into a new routine, with me teaching the ballet school located over the local pharmacy and Carrie doing the housework and most of the cooking while she looked out for Jory.
Thats too mich for Carrie! Shes in her twenties and needs a life!
“It was Julian. One day when I was visiting and you weren’t home he wanted to do . . . do something with me.
No no no no NO! Oh Carrie! Im so sad!
I enrolled him in a special preschool and hired a maid to help out with the housework and stay with Jory when I wasn’t there.
Bitch with what money?!
Those infant shops held a fascination for me too.”
Because of the will! She wont have a baby or she would be disinherited!
Too soundly, for she never heard the beautiful music coming from overhead.
The mice in the attic!
“Now, do your worst. Cut out my eyes; stab me in the heart—you might as well. Your kiss has begun it, but I still demand my total payment.”
What? Did they have sex? What about his heart im not sure he even likes Cathy? HUH?
“Well, you take orange juice freshly squeezed, a dab of lemon juice too, a dash of vodka, bit of coconut oil, and drop in a cherry to dive after. I call it A Maiden’s Delight.”
That sounds gross.
Part two would begin when my mother knew I had Bart’s child—and
WHAT?!?!?
At the back door I used the old wooden key that Chris had fashioned so long ago.
Dont go back into that HOUSE!
She deserved to see me again!
Ooooh delivering on vengeful promises. I like this.
And only then did she see the willow switch I’d hidden behind my back.
SLAAAAAAY QUEEEEEEEN
Kill me. Go on, kill me! I dare you, do it, do it, go on!
Idk maybe DONT kill her
The one big issue we fight over is her unwillingness to have a child, even an adopted one.
You were the lawyer that worked the will! You know about the codicil!
Emma, Jory and I thought it a wonderful idea to make an excursion to Richmond and do some Christmas shopping.
BITCH WITH WHAT MONEY?!
I used a minute bit of arsenic, but not enough to kill you! All I wanted to do was make you a little bit sick, just enough to get you out!”
The mother?!?
but if you leave now and forget about me, he will consider Chris his stepfather, not his uncle.”
Jesus. She goin through men like tissue!
Nothing was ever my fault. Behind me lay a trail of dead men.
Bruh!
