Better Than Chocolate Page #4

is his lawyer wrote me.

And he says my parents

are going to buy me a condo.

So that after the surgery

I'll have someplace to go...

to recuperate...

to have some sense of security.

I mean, wow, not a word

from them since I told them.

Nothing in two years.

And now this.

They miss me.

I'm going to write them and invite them

for a housewarming party.

Please, buy the condo

and move my mother in.

How is your Mom?

And I see you have a new friend.

Yeah. Kim is...

staying with me.

Yeah, and her mother

and her brother.

Sounds complicated.

Well, you know

I have an extra room.

This is Carla and Judy.

Hi. It's nice to meet you.

Nice meeting you.

I was thinking

of the Heritage Peak Condos

they're putting up

down the street?

Do you think

your Mom and I could live there?

Cheap and tawdry goods

masquerading as quality.

Comme moi!

I'll be a Heritage Homo.

Frances, now that I'm almost a woman

of almost means,

I was wondering if maybe you'd like

to go out with me, sometime?

Well, you know...

oh, gosh I'm really, really busy.

There's practically a war on here.

Excuse me.

You can run

but you can't hide.

So, have you told your mother

about your honeymoon yet?

No.

I want her to leave.

I don't want to kill her with the shock.

Oh, come on, she can take it.

Parents can be very resilient.

What does she do all day?

Shop. Cook.

Clean. Decorate.

She sounds lonely.

Hi, I'm Judy.

Is Maggie home?

Oh, gee, she's not, you know.

She and Kim went out again.

Oh... I brought her these

as a housewarming gift.

Well, for all of you, really.

Well, how lovely.

- I'm Lila, I'm Maggie's mother.

- Nice to meet you.

- And you're...?

- Judy. Maggie's friend Judy.

Just think of me

as the Welcome Wagon.

Well, welcome.

- Would you like to come in?

- Yes, thank you.

My, it's quite a climb, isn't it?

I almost got an aneurism.

And here...

and here.

- Lovely, thank you.

- And cheers.

- Cheers.

- Welcome.

You know, I just love that shirt.

Thank you.

I do my best with my limitations.

It's so hard to find nice things

to wear when you're my size.

Oh, you should be proud of your size.

So strong and so striking.

I think the word you're

looking for is "enormous. "

- Exotic.

- Thank you.

You know, I just wish Maggie

had some of your sense of style.

Oh, no, Lila.

Maggie's... Maggie's lovely.

- She's very clever, you know.

- Yes. Yes, she is.

But, what is going on

with her these days?

You'd have to ask her that, Lila.

So, there is something going on?

Oh, well, she's nineteen.

There's always something going on

when you're nineteen.

More wine?

Did you ever wake up one morning...

and feel that everything

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