We all agreed that the wedding had been beautiful, although
Karen, who is becoming quite the Methodist thanks to her detective work,
thought the chanting was “kind of creepy – no offense.”
I had to agree. “But Kate went High Church because when she
was community organizing in the slums, she needed to escape to another world
for an hour a week.”“Well, she certainly did.”
Allison and her family had left in the morning. “Do you think she’s healed now?” Nikki asked.
“I sure hope so.”
“You’re nicer than I am.
I wouldn’t give a rat’s as . . .butt.”“Well, she’s family. Courtney and Dylan are calling Kate ‘Grandma.’ Maybe back home, they’ll call her ‘Pastor Grandma,’ but that’s not my problem.”
“Speaking of family, your dad seemed to hit it off with
Missy. She started getting all
sentimental and telling him how awful she felt about breaking up Janet’s
marriage and would she ever forgive her?”
“He must have loved that.”
“Actually, he didn’t seem to mind. He told her she should
try to get to Janet through Kate. He
called her ‘the other one.’ Why doesn’t
he like Kate? She’s such a sweetheart.”
“In his mind, there’s got to be something wrong with anyone
who would love Janet if they weren’t related to her and had to. Plus, he thinks clergy are either crazy or
hypocrites.”“What about Unitarian ministers?”
“He thinks they’re bleeding heart liberals and tree huggers
with more education then common sense, but they’re interesting to talk to. Were you eavesdropping?”
“I was at the table next to them, and they’d gotten
loud. Ed’s dad was getting a drink or in
the bathroom or something.”
“It’s too bad he wasted his time with Missy,” Nikki
said. “He probably could have gotten
some wedding sex with one of the single churchladies.”
“She’d probably have tried to convert him.”
Cilla picked that time to walk in the kitchen. “I thought the bride and groom were the ones
who had wedding sex.”
I gave her one of the homemade white chocolate macadamia nut
cookies. “Why don’t you take Betsey and
Josh cookies, too? Here, I’ll put
everything on a tray for you. And here
are some napkins from the wedding.”
“Can I have two?”
“Of course you can.
Now run along.”
Karen and Nikki were trying not to laugh. “You missed a teachable moment there. Does she understand about Janet and Kate?”
“She has a new grandmother and she got to be a flower girl
and that’s good enough for her. Anyway,
one of her friends has two dads.”
“And she got two cookies.”
That would work for me.
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