Once a Marine (2014)
“She wore a red gingham apron with green trim, and insisted that everyone at the long trestle table wear a belled Santa hat, just like her own.
“Your china is just beautiful,” Susannah said. “It’s things like this that sometimes make me wish Harrison and I weren’t such nomads.”
The Lanes had once owned a perfectly nice house. Zach knew because he’d seen pictures of it on Summer’s mantel. He liked them, but couldn’t muster any pity, because in their hopeful quest for stardom, they’d depri...ved their only daughter of countless childhood memories. Their regrets, in his opinion, were a consequence of their egocentric choices.
“And all this family,” Susannah cooed, surveying the two rows of Marshalls, passing ham and candied yams, biscuits and butter back and forth. “Oh, what I’d give to host just one function like this!”
It was kind of amazing, Zach thought, that Susannah hadn’t scored a leading part, because she was playing the I’m-so-deprived role to the hilt.MoreLess
“Your china is just beautiful,” Susannah said. “It’s things like this that sometimes make me wish Harrison and I weren’t such nomads.”
The Lanes had once owned a perfectly nice house. Zach knew because he’d seen pictures of it on Summer’s mantel. He liked them, but couldn’t muster any pity, because in their hopeful quest for stardom, they’d depri...ved their only daughter of countless childhood memories. Their regrets, in his opinion, were a consequence of their egocentric choices.
“And all this family,” Susannah cooed, surveying the two rows of Marshalls, passing ham and candied yams, biscuits and butter back and forth. “Oh, what I’d give to host just one function like this!”
It was kind of amazing, Zach thought, that Susannah hadn’t scored a leading part, because she was playing the I’m-so-deprived role to the hilt.MoreLess
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