When in Rome by Liam Callanan

Author:Liam Callanan [Callanan, Liam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

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“Just don’t become a nun, like, tomorrow,” Dorothy said the next day at the airport. They’d struck an overnight, talk-about-anything-else truce, which Dorothy was breaking now. “Give me time.”

This was easy to agree to. September 4 was sixty-six tomorrows away. Also, as Claire had said, the process wasn’t quick, the outcome not guaranteed.

“And promise me you’ll talk to Marcus,” said Dorothy, who apparently would carry a torch for the man forever.

Claire nodded. She had a more urgent concern: “What should I tell Monica?”

“That I love her and I have someone I want her to meet,” Dorothy said.

“Peter?” He’d seemed nice enough, but—

But would Claire miss all this in Rome? Courtship, babies, marriage.

What would Claire have missed had she become a nun at seventeen? Yale, Marcus, Monica. Middle-age dating. Selling old churches. Sitting alone in front of the TV weeknights with a jam jar of wine.

Her precious, precious Dorothy.

“I’d like her to meet the lunatic impersonating my mother,” Dorothy said.

“I love you, sweet girl,” Claire said, and Dorothy hugged her hard. Claire rubbed her hand in a circle on Dorothy’s back: More.

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