Becky lies awake for hours beside her husband, Andrew, then says, "There's this woman in the park who's always staring at me." Half asleep, Andrew reaches for the Rolaids and hands them to her. She tells him she's worried about his mother moving near them. He reassures her she'll settle down and they need to be patient.
Becky reflects on how they had met eight years before. She had gone to Hartwick College in New Hampshire, thinking it would be a welcome break from Florida's endless summer, but she didn't fit in. The girls were whippet-thin and blond and drove BMWs Daddy had bought them for graduation. She had gotten a job in Poire and met Sarah, her future partner in Mas. Her mother had given her diet pills and she had dropped twenty.....
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