To My Dearest Friends by Patricia Volk

Author:Patricia Volk
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307267429
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2007-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

I pick up a pound of mixed fish, garlic for the aioli, and a French bread. Flora likes those brown-sugar cupcakes from Yura. Should I tell her about the letter? No way. She loved her Aunt Bobbie. She’d have to keep it from Betsy or, worse, tell. I’m glad I was faithful if for no other reason than I don’t have to lie to my daughter.

Why didn’t I invite Betsy for dinner too? Flora was so prickly about her last week. Will their friendship survive? Now that they’re not pushed together by Bobbie and me? They’re as unalike or the same as any two strangers. The two of them were my master’s thesis, my living laboratory for a study on innate temperament.

Betsy slept hard, content from Day One. She welcomed the playpen. If Bobbie put on Bach, Betsy stared at the ceiling for hours. A calm baby. But such a picky eater.

And Floradorable? We thought we’d go nuts. A nap-rejecter. Fearless Flora, who at nine months climbed out of her crib and showed up laughing in the bedroom. Scared the hell out of us. Florapie, who drained an eight-ounce bottle nonstop, breathing like a trombone player. The first eighteen years of their lives, those girls did everything together. Sand box, schools, camp. Will they stay friends? I can’t make it happen, but I’d like Floradorable to have one friend in life as good as Bobbie. Two girls without sibs, witnesses to each other’s childhoods. That isn’t enough?

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