Birdie keeps reminding Sandy that they need a new car. Sandy says they need a lot of things: a job, a house, new shoes, blue jeans and new I.D's. Sandy's fake driver's license has expired more than a year ago, and a pen leaked over the picture on Birdie's faux passport. For the first few years, they switched cars every six months, but they have had this one more than two years.
Sandy calls a landlord about a cottage for rent. The ad says, "family preferred, references required," but Sandy bluffs her way through. She tells Walter Marsh she is a professor's wife, recently widowed. Marsh reminds Birdie of her mother's brother, Randall. He is a college professor, with that same slightly rumpled charm. The Marshes live in the large,.....
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