Call Me Anna: the Autobiography of Patty Duke
“The site was the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley, sweet and tiny, the ideal movie set. Not everything else, however, was quite so perfect. For one thing, I realized the morning of the event that I’d forgotten to make arrangements for the bride to be driven to the ceremony. So, furious with myself, I got into my electric blue Mustang convertible with the wire wheels and stormed off, taking myself to my own wedding.
When I pulled up to the church, my Patty Duke Show family was there, and the Rosses were too. I toyed with the idea of not inviting them inside but I decided I didn’t want to feel guilty later on, and such an obvious slap in the face wouldn’t have looked very good in the eyes of anyone who didn’t know the whole story.
The person who wasn’t there was my mother. Of course I’d asked her, but she’d decided she had to go to my cousin Mary Ann’s baby shower or something and couldn’t quite make it. Every time she complained about my not calling her or not being an at...tentive enough daughter, I’d remember she had gone to Mary Ann’s baby shower instead of my wedding.MoreLess
When I pulled up to the church, my Patty Duke Show family was there, and the Rosses were too. I toyed with the idea of not inviting them inside but I decided I didn’t want to feel guilty later on, and such an obvious slap in the face wouldn’t have looked very good in the eyes of anyone who didn’t know the whole story.
The person who wasn’t there was my mother. Of course I’d asked her, but she’d decided she had to go to my cousin Mary Ann’s baby shower or something and couldn’t quite make it. Every time she complained about my not calling her or not being an at...tentive enough daughter, I’d remember she had gone to Mary Ann’s baby shower instead of my wedding.MoreLess
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