Someday Soon by Debbie Macomber

Author:Debbie Macomber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1995-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Francine gladly accepted the shopping date with her mother. She’d been looking for an excuse to casually talk about her relationship with Tim. Martha Holden was both mother and friend to Francine. There were several important questions she needed answered, but she didn’t want to be obvious about her reasons for wanting to know.

They met at the Embarcadaro at Nordstrom. Who would have ever believed Francine would have the most important discussion of her life in women’s lingerie? Certainly not her.

It all began naturally. “How long did you and Dad date before you were married?” Francine asked. As she recalled, at the time her mother had been an English literature major and her father an apprentice plumber. Both families had been left shaking their heads in wonder at the explosive romance that developed between the two.

Francine’s father was a burly giant, reaching nearly six feet six inches. Everything about him was big. His hands were monstrous, his feet so large they had to special order his shoes. Her mother, on the other hand, was a full foot and two inches shorter and a delicate soul who loved poetry, classical music, and English literature.

As fate would have it, Francine had favored her father’s side of the family. She reached six feet by the time she was fourteen and was several inches taller than two of her own brothers.

“Your father and I met in September and married in October a year later,” her mother answered.

Actually Francine knew this but wanted to ease into the discussion. “What attracted you to Dad?”

Martha Holden smiled softly and held a black lacy bra against her stomach. She looked straight ahead and into warm memories, Francine suspected.

“I was much too young to know about love,” Martha Holden began. “He was such a bear of a man, even more so then, but his heart has always been big and gentle. Soon after we met, I saw him bend down and comfort a little boy who’d fallen off his bicycle. There was something so tender and caring in the way he talked to that child. I think it was then that I fell in love with him.”

Francine made busy sorting through a rack of satin pajamas, her eyes avoiding her mother’s. “Did you and Dad sleep together before the wedding?”

Her mother, who’d been busy checking bra sizes, hesitated. “No,” she answered softly. “I realize that isn’t what you expected to hear. Not in this day and age, not then, either, for that matter. We met during the sixties, in the age of free love, when AIDS and the like wasn’t a consideration.”

“I admire your restraint,” Francine said, sorry now she’d brought up the subject, which was far more personal than anything she’d asked previously. “It must have been difficult being so much in love.”

“Congratulate your father, then. If it had been up to me, we would have lived together two months before the wedding. He was the one who insisted we wait. Trust me, Francine, I did everything I knew to break his resolve, but your father wanted things right for me.

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