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Show Woodworth/152 were never messy. Can you imagine that? I feel like I bitched at them for years to clean up their rooms. Then, suddenly, the rooms are always clean, and it drives me nuts." She says it all so good-naturedly that Ruth is convinced that Kathy was, underneath, glad her children had left home. The truth was, they had been sent away from home. To give Kathy time to get a job. She hadn't been satisfied with being a mother. So she had booted her kids out of the house. At least when they decided to send Jake to boarding school, it was for a good reason. He was only surrounded by his sisters all day long, and needed to be with boys his own age. "I still miss them, sometimes. But when they come home now, it's such chaos. Deidre with three children, and Stephanie with a baby. It's Pampers all over the place, and one catastrophe or another. It gets so I can hardly wait for them to leave again. Isn't that strange? And what's even stranger is that, once they've left and it's all quiet again, I miss all the wonderful action. I guess I'll just never be satisfied." She smiles and sighs. "Poor me." She grins at her husband. • "How's Marty doing in her new place?" Gray asks. "She liking it all right?" "Oh, yeah," Ned says. "It's not a bad place. I've been up a couple of times, picking her up or driving her home. It's on Charles Street, an old building. But it has character. It's right near where I was born. I get this feeling of history repeating itself when I go to pick her up. A lot of the buildings still look the same. Except, of course, the people look so different." "I think it will do her some good to live on her own for a while, "4 -Amy oayo i *JL 14. seems like she needs to get a better |