Wedding Ring
““Lou’s” Atlanta family had Old South heritage and New South money, and Lou understood every nuance of gracious living.
Billy’s parents were not thrilled when he gave Nancy a wedding ring. The resulting conversation had contained so many words like annulment, misjudgment and entrapment that Nancy wondered if she had stumbled into a quiz show with “words ending in ‘ment’” as the only category.
Now she had new words to add to that list: disappointment, discouragement, disillusionment.
...Two weeks before her second Christmas as a married woman, Nancy woke up in the room she shared with her baby daughter and peeked out of half-opened lids, hoping, as she had every morning for a year, that she would see the narrow confines of her farmhouse bedroom.
As always, she was out of luck.
Her room in the Whitlock house was high-ceilinged and spacious, with multi-paned windows draped in sheer curtains that danced as heat from the floor register wafted through the room.MoreLess
Billy’s parents were not thrilled when he gave Nancy a wedding ring. The resulting conversation had contained so many words like annulment, misjudgment and entrapment that Nancy wondered if she had stumbled into a quiz show with “words ending in ‘ment’” as the only category.
Now she had new words to add to that list: disappointment, discouragement, disillusionment.
...Two weeks before her second Christmas as a married woman, Nancy woke up in the room she shared with her baby daughter and peeked out of half-opened lids, hoping, as she had every morning for a year, that she would see the narrow confines of her farmhouse bedroom.
As always, she was out of luck.
Her room in the Whitlock house was high-ceilinged and spacious, with multi-paned windows draped in sheer curtains that danced as heat from the floor register wafted through the room.MoreLess
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