Eat, Drink and Remarry: Confessions of a Serial Wife by Margo Howard

Author:Margo Howard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Furth went on to remarry. I only saw him once after our divorce when a close friend died and her memorial service was at the Furth Chapel. We had a cordial greeting, shook hands, and I felt absolutely nothing.

He died in 2003.

CHAPTER SIX

Wherein a whirlwind romance and love at first sight work really well for many years.

Toward the end of 1976 I was separated from Furth and the kids and I were all doing just fine. Even then (almost 40 years ago!) divorce was pretty common, at least among their school friends’ parents, so they did not feel like weird outliers living under the “D” cloud.

By this time, Abra, then 13, was at the Bement School in Massachusetts. That decision had been made unilaterally by her father after she and her friends trashed a hotel suite (in his hotel) celebrating her eighth-grade graduation. I did not protest, as I knew boarding school had been traditional in Coleman’s family. Plus, she was a handful.

Happily, there was no tension in the house. There was also no dog. This meant I was easily blackmailed into getting a pair of “racing turtles,” Step and Fetchit; Rabbit Redford; a pair of gerbils; and a cat who was somehow more neurotic than most. And I seem to recall a bird that came to a bad end under the dining room table, courtesy of the cat.

Though not yet officially divorced from Furth, we were separated, so I had no compunctions about dating. This was, in a way, same song/second verse, relative to my situation with Coleman when we had separated. I believed (and so advised others, later on) that if a couple is kaput and not living under the same roof, dating is permissible because, in all the ways that count, the marriage is over.

I was dating here and there, and for a time I was seeing a darling guy named Peter Rittmaster who designed small racing yachts. He was in Chicago for a stretch, though his company was based in Miami. Peter had recently been divorced, but his former wife caused me to summon up every bit of self-confidence I could muster, as she was the gorgeous Israeli movie star Daliah Lavi who had been in Casino Royale, among other films. Neither Peter nor I was thinking of marriage, but we had a lot of fun together and a lovely romantic friendship.

Around this time I was writing a lot of celebrity profiles, and a publicist asked if I wanted to interview the actor Ken Howard, who was bringing the national tour of Equus to Chicago. I had never heard of him, which surprised the publicist, who said he had starred on Broadway, on television and in the movies. What was interesting to me was Equus. I had seen it in London and thought it so terrific I tried to invest in the American version, but it was closed to investors by the time I made inquiries.

The publicist wanted me to see the play, so the night before I was to do the interview I went to Equus with Peter.

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