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Chapter 4 – Philadelphia – Day 3
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Tina: I have been thinking about that. Why don’t we just provide Daniel a car and driver to take him to and from school. If John David goes to the same school, let him ride with Daniel. That will free you and I up to do what we need to do without scheduling problems. That will get him to school at an appropriate time and bring him home when he is finished. What do you think?
Bette: I think that’s a good plan. I can come home a little earlier and perhaps I can assume some of the cooking duties.
Tina: Well, remember we are going to have Mary living with us. She may want to assume some of the cooking duties. And Margaret if she is still living with us will be retired and she would love to cook. Right now, since she is bringing Daniel and John David home, she can’t get home early enough to do it or she would. And I don’t mind it at all. But there are some days when I am really into a piece that I am painting that I would prefer to keep working on it rather than to stop and go home and cook. But I know, the family is depending on having that meal around 6:00 or 6:30. So, I stop and go home.
Bette: Well, we need to work something out so that you can stay a little later, if that is what you want to do. Now that Margaret is doing the car pool, I’d be glad to cook the dinner. I should be home by 4:30 anyway. Margaret and Daniel won’t be there until 5:30 or 5:45.
Tina: Bette, everything is working fine. I’m getting much more time with you than I ever had in New York. We are both home every night and we are getting an extra hour in the morning. Daniel is spending more of his weekend time with his friends. And yet we are spending a fair amount of time with him. So, what do you want to do today?
Bette: Have you ever been on a tour of historical Philadelphia?
Tina: No, I never have. But I would love to get a flavor of the city of Philadelphia.
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Hi Martha, what an amazing trip to Philadelphia. There was so much information regarding Melvin and what they learnt if him and his life. Poor Bette, I think it’s going to be pretty difficult to explain this all to Mary and her sister as it has obviously hit her hearing all this. Tina is such a tower of strength to her, I love how they are so besotted with each other and hold each other up! I love hearing about their plans for Angie and Daniel, they are so attentive to their children and want only the best for them. The way they talk through everything with them making sure they understand .
Finally the love they have for each other, is incredibly. They way they do everything for each other, they just want to be together, all the time. Enjoying being out shopping, visiting museums, enjoying meals or just cuddling up on the sofa. They are, as you said, the other half of each other !
Loving this so much, will continue on….o hope you are also continuing on, with this story….
Take care and Thankyou, for this amazing piece of writing!
Thanks… I have always thought that the relationship between Bette and her father was the most important relationship of her life prior to Tina. I could see that she struggled to love and admire the man who always seemed to believe she never quite measured up to his standards. But in my mind, I always knew that Melvin loved his children with all of his heart. He just didn’t have the ability to show this to them. His thought was to just leave them all his worldly possessions and they would know. But the truth is that until Bette talked to Gabriel Scott and to Harriett Myers, she would never know how much Melvin loved Bette, Kit, Mary, Paris and even Tina.
When Tina points out that if Melvin had told Bette on his death bed that Mary was alive and that she had another sister, Bette would be in shock. But if he told her that he had known for 15 years or more, Bette might have taken a pillow and smothered him on the spot. The truth was there was never going to be an ideal time to tell Bette or Kit about Mary Southerland. And Bette knows this deep in her heart. She also knows that all of this is a part of the past. A past which is done and dusted. And all the what ifs and if onlys are a waste of energy. Melvin and his relationship with Bette, Kit and Tina is what it was and had its impact on their lives. For Bette and for Tina, it explains so much. It explains why Tina is a part of his will. It explains why the final distribution was 18 years after his death. It explains how he found out about Mary Southerland and her daughter Paris. It explains how Paris was educated in England during her teen years and college years. And it gives another dimension to the personality of Melvin William Porter.
Bette is going to explain most of this to Kit, Paris and Mary in a future chapter. And in their own way, they will reconcile the Melvin they knew to the Melvin to the man they found in Philadelphia.
This for me is the most emotional chapter I have ever written… deep in my soul, I feel the loss Bette feels for the relationship she never had with her father and that is more painful than the fact that she had all those years of loss in not knowing her mother and sister. The reason is because Mary and Paris are still around and there is opportunity to have a good relationship with them. But Melvin is gone and there is no opportunity to mend that relationship with him. Such as life. But as Bette Porter and Tina Kennard always do – they learn from the mistakes including the mistakes of others around them. They have learned a lot from Melvin and much of it is what not to do in life.
Thank you for reading this and commenting…. it is rather gratifying to see that someone sees this story as a gratifying piece of entertainment. There are several more chapters to this Volume and it will continue.