Four generations of Whitshanks lived in a
house built by Junior. Each summer they rented the same place at the
beach. How did it start? Linnie followed
Junior to Baltimore. When she called to be picked up at the train station, he
almost didn’t get her, except “he couldn’t just leave her there. She’d be as
helpless as a baby chick.” Later he realized: “Why had he worried for one
second about abandoning her at the train station? She would have done fine
without him! She would do fine anywhere.” This is a book about the rewards of
long-term relationships.
Junior and Linnie had two children: Merrick
and Redcliffe (Red). Merrick married her best friend’s (Pookie Vanderlin)
fiancé, Trey (the Prince of Roland Park). Red marries Abby. They have four
children (Amanda, (four years younger) Jeannie, (five years younger) Denny, (two
years younger) Stem (born Douglas). Amanda married Hugh and had a daughter
Elise. Jeannie married another Hugh and had Deb and Alexander. Denny has one
daughter Susan. Stem married Nora and they had three stairstep boys and a dog.
Linnie and Nora are not Whitshanks. They are
peacemakers.
QUESTIONS
What Denny’s relationship to Alison/Allie? Is
she Susan’s mother? What is the TRUTH about Denny?
What is the lesson of the crying seatmate on
the train? “It was this last thought that told him what to do about his
seatmate: nothing. Pretend not to notice. Look past him out the rain-splattered
window.”
If you’d like some encouragement to continue a
relationship, read this—love stories about staying together.
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