And unlike many of her friends, she did have a home, or a base, even if there was no one in it except herself and Ross, whom she had inherited from her mother. Again unlike many of the people she knew, Tammy never really felt lonely or adrift: maybe because she was always either looking forward to or looking for something, so what was actually happening in the present wasn’t of overriding concern to her. In earlier years, when they had been college room-mates, her friend Minnie used to say that Tammy’s serenity came from never having had to worry about money. But now that Minnie too had money—a poor girl with a lot of personality, she had married a rich man—she herself had not attained serenity; on the contrary. When her marriage broke up—her husband had turned out to be a rotten bastard—Minnie was tremendously restless and traveled all over the world, first for pleasure to places like Venice and San Raphael, then further east for enlightenment. Tammy had sometimes joined her on both kinds of expedition and had enjoyed them much more than Minnie.
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