Laura muttered to herself, lifting a shopping bag of homemade goodies out of the trunk of her car. “Better yet: Mrs. Doubtfire.” It wasn’t that she didn’t have experience with children. Eight years with Evan, after all, had provided her with an impressive array of skills, everything from wiping noses and making the perfect peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich to intelligently discussing the Wayne’s World films and holding her own in video games. But meeting Cam’s kids was different. She wasn’t trying to be their mother. Or their friend. Not even their au pair. As a matter of fact, her relationship with them wasn’t one mat she’d read, heard, or even thought much about. She was their father’s girlfriend, a role that in the movies was invariably played by a gum-chewing actress with a Marilyn Monroe body and a bubble of bleached-blond hair. At least she didn’t fit that image. Dressed in jeans and her funkiest T-shirt, she looked more like a camp counselor. Even so, the fact that no amount of shopping at The Gap could override was that she was an outsider.
What do You think about Once More With Feeling (1996)?
