The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

by Dawnie Walton

So it is with Mad and her men. Perhaps this will make little sense, as it does not fit the heteronormative narrative, but she veritably blossomed with relief at the news of petite impending you. Remember, James was her formative experiment in love—conclusion being that Mad is not a woman who cares very deeply for romantic commitment. She had never wanted to possess James, and more than that, she did not want to be possessed by him. Once they dropped all pretense that they had potential for more, once she knew that she would never be in a position to replace wife and mother and also that she did not prefer to be stuffed down that particular hole, all her guilt regarding their affair went poof poof. I understand, though, that your poor papa, like so many of the others after him, had difficulty processing such modern styles.