The Shortest Distance Between Two Women - Plot & Excerpts
IT IS THE SIMPLE BEGINNING OF what could end up being a twelve-or fourteen-hour day of slave labor for Stephie in Emma’s gardens when the niece, who will be paying off her auntie for everything that has happened during the past week for the rest of her life, leans over the rapidly spreading spider flowers and asks Emma if she ever wishes she was someone else. Emma and Stephie have designed a kind of mild truce following the horrific drinking-party incident that has totally changed Stephie’s life. Orders from her furious parents have turned teenage Stephie back into a baby. No unmonitored anything. No cell phone. No computer except for school projects. Grounded until she turns fifty, or figures out a way to make amends, and apologizes every second for the rest of the year. And Emma, not certain if Stephie would even remember what she said to her, accepted Stephie’s sober apology, dealt with Joy on the phone, and had to apologize herself for not realizing what Stephie was up to.
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