She cared what their father said about their mother, what he said about everything. It was about what each had seen in himself.”Ĭaroline “cared abut the law and tennis and her grades in classes she didn’t even like.
But then again it wasn’t about what either man had seen in Caroline or Franny. The girls “showed no skills at debate, though their energy for screaming at one another was limitless. Both Bert and Kix wanted Franny and her older sister, Caroline, to go to law school. The children spent their Virginia summers exploring without parental supervision. “In Virginia, the six children had shared the two bedrooms and a single cat, picked food from one another’s plates and indiscriminately used the same bath towels, but in California everything was separate. She remained in Los Angeles, and eventually qualified for a job in her ex-husband’s office.Įvery summer the four Cousins children - Cal, Holly, Jeannette and Albie - flew to Virginia to spend the summer with their father, Beverly and Beverly’s daughters, Caroline and Franny. Bert’s wife, Teresa, had her fourth child, Albie (short for Albert) shortly after the christening party.
We know that Beverly married Bert and moved to Virginia of their affair prior to marriage we know nothing. In the next chapter, Franny is grown and taking her father to chemotherapy.
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