By Jo-Ann Mapson
The effect of four-year-old Spencer's dying has rocked the chippie relations. For Lainie, the lack of her son is insufferable, and now either her marriage and her very sanity are threatened. Her guitar-obsessed, slacker brother Russell is not doing rather well both, and his personal love dating is speedily coming undone. Then there is Bop, her fierce and crusty 80-year-old grandfather. whilst he falls in love with a retired stripper, their earthy romance touches all of the Carpenters' lives in unforeseen methods.
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It was nearly midnight in New York. ” “I need to get hold of one of those women on the show today,” he told the switchboard operator. “You and ten thousand other well-meaning individuals. Sorry. ” Bop wrote it down in spidery left-handed printing. He hung up and called FTD. “And a pleasant good evening to you, too. ” “Birthday? Graduation? ” the clerk droned, as if he had come to his job straight from the DMV. ” Such an impatient young man. Didn’t he realize that one day he too would be old and lonely, trying hard to burn up his Friday nights instead of working them?
You and ten thousand other well-meaning individuals. Sorry. ” Bop wrote it down in spidery left-handed printing. He hung up and called FTD. “And a pleasant good evening to you, too. ” “Birthday? Graduation? ” the clerk droned, as if he had come to his job straight from the DMV. ” Such an impatient young man. Didn’t he realize that one day he too would be old and lonely, trying hard to burn up his Friday nights instead of working them? “No special theme. Something with a lot of red in it on the first one.
Everyone loved Bop. The horse show mothers sent him their toddlers, and he’d gather them in a bunch and read Misty of Chincoteague. Teenaged girls cried on his shoulder about their boyfriends’ betrayals and he bought them Cokes, bags of cheese curls, told them there wasn’t a man fit to walk the planet who deserved their beauty. Everyone loved him, that is everyone except his grandchildren and his son’s widow, Meridel. Them you couldn’t buy anything. While the sins of a horse were often visited upon the owner in a 22 / Jo-Ann Mapson mostly financial way—the hot walker had dented his pocket to the tune of two grand—money meant little when your blood kin refused it.