What man would want a woman like Jackie? She was extremely bright, sharp, and funny—cutting, even—and she had real goals. Janet told Jackie to tone herself down, to hide her intelligence lest she scare off the best available men. But Jackie wasn’t sure she could hide her smarts, mainly because she didn’t want to. She needed a man who could keep up with her and let her shine. Her mother had hung her entire identity on being a wife and mother—and look how that turned out. Janet tried to hide her depression, but Jackie knew her mother drank and took pills and sometimes slept the day away. Neither
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