Vivvie dropped her feet to the grass and smoked and smoked. She wished she could speak about these things with Elin. Vivvie had told her own mother most anything, her mother more like a friend, offering laughter instead of advice in the years just before she died. Why did everything have to go unspoken between Vivvie and Elin? Unspoken but not unaware. Why did they feel the need to play this game of fool you/fool me that neither was winning or would ever win?
