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New Greenlea Tale: The Grey Girls
louisev:
and here is chapter 30:
http://louisev.livejournal.com/264762.html
mariez:
SPOILERS
Poor Colson. I shudder to think what would happen if he weren't married to a chief deputy sheriff and close personal friends with a sheriff.
...Like the day you caught Larry Esteban out in the woods an kept punchin em.”..
We all know that long-standing and pent-up fear, resentment and anger are dangerous things to ourselves and those around us, and Colson went off the deep end with Larry Esteban and was lucky enough to have Ellery around to snap him back to reality and give him a sense of security. The situations aren't precisely the same, of course, but it appears that those same emotions are causing Laura to basically lose her mind - and it doesn't appear that she has anyone to rein her in or give her that sense of security. From what we saw in "The Long Way Home," her husband only serves to exacerbate the problem. Edna was kind and a temporary balm, but basically Laura views her as part of Colson's camp. I started re-reading "Red Stallions for Christmas" last night and was reminded that Katie Ann thought Pam's lie about the red stallions was "genius" and that it would be "fun" for Laura to keep believing it - because she quickly saw it as a way to manipulate her parents into getting her way (ironically something she probably learned from her mother, but not "fun" or helpful in the least). Sigh.
“You look after Colson now, an I don’t want ta know any a the details,..”
LOL! Thanks for that little bit of classic, Wes.
Thanks,
Marie
louisev:
SPOILERS!
Yes, I'm afraid the resentment lies deep, and perhaps it was only a matter of time after Colson found his own life and his own way that Laura would figure out that his relationship with Ellery wasn't a passing thing and that it would continue to irritate her. But her daughters' desire to abandon ship was not expected, and with their pushing to get away from her, that has to hurt really badly.
And now it is finally coming to head, under the worst possible circumstances.
souxi:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on March 31, 2008, 11:37:45 am ---SPOILERS!
Yes, I'm afraid the resentment lies deep, and perhaps it was only a matter of time after Colson found his own life and his own way that Laura would figure out that his relationship with Ellery wasn't a passing thing and that it would continue to irritate her. But her daughters' desire to abandon ship was not expected, and with their pushing to get away from her, that has to hurt really badly.
And now it is finally coming to head, under the worst possible circumstances.
--- End quote ---
I,ve said this before Louise, I can honestly totally understand Lauras continuing resentment about all this I really can, BUT. If she can,t ever fully accept Colsons relationship with Ellery, and that is highly unlikely, she,s just going to have to learn to live with it, because if she doesn,t it,s going to make her ill. She,s getting herself so worked up and stressed about it all that she,s going to give herself an ulcer and probably high blood pressure too, and with her being pregnant that is not good for her or the baby. She has offered her daughter no support atall through all this so it,s no wonder they can,t wait to get away from her. She,s going to drive away everyone if she,s not very careful and she,ll end up a very lonely old woman. She,s about as bitter and twisted as she can get at the moment. She still thinks of herself as the "wronged wife" and yes, she was wronged in the worst possible way, but it was a long long time ago and she has re-married. I really think it,s time she let or at least tried to let it go. Colson didn,t set out to be gay and hurt her, that,s just the way things went. He tried and tried for so long to fight against it because of the way he was brought up and look what happened, he lost Adam, the love of his life. You can,t help who you are or who you fall in love with. I honestly think she,ll end up being really ill over this if she,s not careful and loose the baby. I sincerely hope NOT, but stress can do alarming things to a womans body, especially when she,s pregnant.
louisev:
and, chapter 31...http://louisev.livejournal.com/265178.html
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