Comments | waxing_creative: more Doughgirl

roma_ann in waxing_creative

more Doughgirl

Mar 08, 2005 13:16

Truth be known, the idea of commitment hadn’t come easily to her. She wasn’t like the other girls, with their successions of long-time boyfriends since the age of 15. No doubt, there was something to be envied in being someone’s girlfriend: that possibility of having an instant identity even when other talents escaped the girl. How many ( Read more... )

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kgb1138 March 8 2005, 11:13:40 UTC

Okay, I'm hooked. Now you need to finish it. Lot's of questions such as:

What event or events have happened to Laura that makes her become so introspective?

I know it may be the dissolving of a marriage, but why now?

Writing about Laura's past should give us a glimpse into her psyche, and why she's in the situation she's in.

Have you seen Paul Mazursky's "An Unmarried Women" with Jill Clayburgh?

Roma, you got me. Now reel me in. ;-)

Great stuff! Thanks for the glimpse.

roma_ann March 8 2005, 11:32:23 UTC

Ok, I'll keep going then-- you know, all the questions can't be answered at once... I'm sure the glimpses of her past will continue to peek out from under her daily events...

No, I haven't seen An Unmarried Woman-- will look into it.

susanjacobson March 8 2005, 19:07:26 UTC

mmmm, I had similar experiences. Except college for me was an opportunity to join with fellow type AAAs to work on projects - which I never had access to in high school. I was more ambivalent about partying. That was Florida - easy drugs, easy alcohol. But in college there was nothing like a good alcohol fest at the end of a task.