The High Cost of Living
“George was upstairs in the family room building a wooden skyscraper with Davey and Louise, and Sue also wanted to tell Leslie about Brenda arriving without warning the weekend before to make a dreadful scene, and how cruel and unfeeling George had been. Sue had had to clear it all up as usual, and send Brenda back to Grand Rapids on the bus after a good cry.
“Really, I don’t hardly know what she thought she was going to stir up.” Sue paused. She was a big-boned attractive woman with short strai...ght hair of a wonderful color. It was half natural straw blond and half prematurely gray. The result was a beautiful ash color that reminded Leslie of the furniture in her parents’ bedroom. Her mother had got it when the hotel closed, where she used to wait tables in the summers, and she called it Hollywood Oak. The veneer was that same ash blond. There were a double bed, a vanity, and a chest of drawers; one of the treats of Leslie’s childhood had been to help her mother empty the drawers and line them with shelf paper.MoreLess
“Really, I don’t hardly know what she thought she was going to stir up.” Sue paused. She was a big-boned attractive woman with short strai...ght hair of a wonderful color. It was half natural straw blond and half prematurely gray. The result was a beautiful ash color that reminded Leslie of the furniture in her parents’ bedroom. Her mother had got it when the hotel closed, where she used to wait tables in the summers, and she called it Hollywood Oak. The veneer was that same ash blond. There were a double bed, a vanity, and a chest of drawers; one of the treats of Leslie’s childhood had been to help her mother empty the drawers and line them with shelf paper.MoreLess
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