Love, Ellen: A MotherDaughter Journey by Betty DeGeneres

Love, Ellen: A MotherDaughter Journey by Betty DeGeneres

Author:Betty DeGeneres [DeGeneres, Betty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-05-28T00:00:00+00:00


I had a really exciting weekend. I made two pairs of jogging pants and covered two cushions for our breakfast room benches. This living in the fast lane is going to wear me out!

I laughed too. The truth, we both knew, was that B. and I did work hard making our homes attractive. The house in Shreveport was really coming along. “It will mean so much,” I said with a sigh, “when you and Vance can come see it.” Then I became more serious, saying, “I was thinking the other day about the quality, as opposed to quantity, of the time we spend together. Goodness knows we have quality. Many mothers and daughters who live in the same town and see each other every day don’t enjoy anything near the quality relationship we have, El.”

Ellen nodded. On the other hand, she pointed out, she’d much prefer it if I lived closer to her. Nothing was said, but reading between the lines I knew that Ellen firmly believed I would leave B. sooner or later. She certainly would have preferred it to be sooner. “What was this about an unprovoked verbal attack?” she asked.

“Oh, it blew over,” I said quickly, as usual doing my best to put a pleasant spin on things. B. had flown into a rage with me for no specific reason, only to back down the moment he realized how upset I was. “He’s been super nice, trying to make up for it.” Then I brought up my other bit of news—the diamond B. had given me for Christmas. It was over a carat and really gorgeous. “Did I tell you that we’re having it set in my gold nugget ring, with six diamond chips set randomly around it?”

Ellen reminded me that I had written to her about it. “Remember?” she said. “You wrote me about all the strings attached.” El was referring to the fact that B.’s sister didn’t want to sell him the diamond because she wanted to “keep it in the family” and had sold it to him only on the condition that when I died it would go to his daughter. “That’s a bunch of horse manure,” El went on. “Like you said, you don’t want to be in that stupid family anyway.”

“It’s put a damper on the whole thing,” I admitted, repeating how I had told B. that when Ellen made it in show business she was going to buy her own diamonds—if she wanted any. “Just so you know,” I told her, “if anything happens to me they can have the diamond back but the ring and little diamonds go to you and Vance. That’s worth something, and you all can do what you want with it. Plus, you’re going to get my silver, china, and crystal, and Grandmother Pfeffer’s china—all the stuff that was mine before.” Before I became too maudlin, I let her know that I had some genuinely exciting financial information. Brightening, I said, “I bought a $300 IRA.



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