Afterwards, everyone walks to Serena's house for drinks, lunch and a showing of Serena and Max's wedding movie. As Maggie looks around the room, sees all the old friends gathered, she thinks that the scene could almost have come straight from high school.
She lets her mind wander even further to the time she and Ira fell in love. He had been a few years ahead of her in school, and he never had a social life because of family commitments to his ailing father and two sisters.
Maggie had been dating Boris Drumm, and it was assumed they would marry. Boris, however, couldn't understand Maggie's contentment with working at a nursing home and not entering college after graduation. It finally became clear that Boris had political ambitions and would need a wife.....
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