The Wrong Family
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The very thing that kept them together was also the thing that kept them apart.
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Winnie had agreed in the moment because she hadn’t had a date in six months and was starting to feel dried out.
Shannon
🙄
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“Ha! He knows better. And besides,” she’d said out of the corner of her mouth, “Manda has really let herself go.”
Shannon
Its cheating. And ugh for her to blame the woman for "letting herself go" she is part of the problem.🙄
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All the sisters were the same way about Dakota—they babied him.
Shannon
Time for some tough love. That man needs to grow up.
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She eyed the salads wistfully but shut her menu with a snap that blew her hair up around her face. That was what parenting was all about—the sacrifices. She would eat fake red meat if it meant bonding with her son.
Shannon
Ordering a burger isn't going to help you bond with your son. She should have just gotten the salad.
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The brother being in the house was bad—bad for everyone, but mostly bad for Juno, who had taken to hiding. She didn’t like him; she could agree with Nigel on that.
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Once upon a time, she’d been a bona fide psychologist, for God’s sake.
Shannon
And as a psychologist, she should know how off putting snooping through someones things is.
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“No. You’re right. I don’t know what it’s like to steal someone’s infant—”
Shannon
Wait! WHAT?!
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“You just have upper-middle-class shame you feel compelled to atone for!” It was as if he’d issued some silent challenge to his wife. And so Winnie found herself working at Illuminations for two years.
Shannon
She is just proving how selfish and spoiled she is by doing this.