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“Are you…do you have company?” Cash asks. “Kind of,” Ayers says. “I’m pregnant.”
Candice, the woman in charge, asked Huck if Irene was his new lady friend, and Huck said, “Irene is my business partner,” and Candice said, “Okay, if that’s what you want to call it.”
“Remember what we taught you to do when you get to the end of your rope?” “Make a knot and hang on,” Ayers says.
His life was blessed and he hadn’t appreciated it like he should have.
These days, a picture of a thing is more important than the thing itself.
It’s the best gift she can bestow on this child: a mother who is happy and capable and whole.
but hate was not the opposite of love. Indifference was the opposite of love,
She doesn’t want to shower and she doesn’t want to socialize.
I’m crazy, Irene thinks. Crazy about him and just plain crazy.
“But Todd doesn’t even see me,” Marilyn says. “He stopped seeing me the second my father handed over the seed money. To Todd, I’m invisible.” Irene makes a noise of recognition. What had Lydia said during their New Year’s Day dinner at the Pullman Diner? The CIA should hire women in their fifties. We’re invisible.
Wendy is very concerned about exercise. (Ellen is concerned with breakfast, lunch, happy hour—preferably with snacks—and dinner.)
