(c) Carolyn Brown, Montlake Romance, 2019 “Smokey thought so, and his opinion was the only one that mattered to me,” Tootsie said. “And I bet you were the belle of the ball,” Diana said. But she’d always felt like a wallflower and had kept to the shadows or visited with Joanie and Diana, back when she was still going to the events. “I’d love to have seen that.” Carmen had been to several fancy parties with Eli. “Just like Scarlett O’Hara did in the novel.” I took a panel of the green velvet curtains down off the living room windows, thanked Smokey’s aunt Gertrude for giving them to us as a wedding gift even though I hated them at the time, and made myself a beautiful dress for the party,” she said. Smokey had his dress uniform, but I was a little country girl who didn’t have a damn thing to wear to a formal dinner. “I wore it to the first big military party that Smokey and I had to attend. I’ll have to show you my party dress sometime,” Tootsie said between bites. Smokey knew that was my all-time favorite book, so we have the movie and the book, plus the new books about Rhett Butler and Scarlett. It’s by appointment on Sunday, but I think I can make a call and get you in today,” Tootsie said. They open at one o’clock on Sunday, and if y’all want to, you can probably take a tour of the Gone with the Wind Museum. I figure we’ll park the motor home, and this afternoon we’ll catch the little shuttle bus they run downtown to the antique stores. Jefferson, Texas is just one of their stops along the way - or at least it was a planned stop - but sometimes plans get changed. Their destination is an old farmhouse in the ghost town of Scrap, Texas, right next to the Red River, but there's lots to see and experience on the trip itself. Her nephew, Luke, has agreed to drive, so all they have to do is say yes, and pack their bags. Then, Tootsie, their dear old next-door neighbor insists that they go on a crazy road trip with her on a road trip in her giant RV. They suddenly find themselves on an emotional roller coaster as they experience all the pain of the empty next. Each of them has a daughter, and each of those daughters had followed in their father’s footsteps and enlisted in the Army. As military wives for the past twenty years, Carmen, Joanie, and Diana through wars, rumors of wars, death, divorce, fears, and joys, but nothing had prepared them for the day they walked away from the army recruiter’s office in downtown San Antonio. Thank you so much for inviting me and my characters from The Empty Nesters back for a visit. Good mornin’ to all y’all at Fresh Fiction.
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