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    Starting Over (35)

    Story written on September 12, 2009 by Dazed and Amused.
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    Sharing the pain…and the joy.

    “Bette, I love you with all that I am.  Please know that.  Why don’t you go and take a quick shower.  I’ll go make us some tea and we’ll talk some more on the couch.  Okay?”

    Bette nodded.  They shared a warm hug and reluctantly separated.

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    About 20 minutes later Bette joined Tina on the couch.  Tina had made some sandwiches and poured them some tea.  Bette smiled at the simple gesture and leaned down and greeted Tina with a kiss.

    “Thank you T, I’m sorry I lost it like that.”

    Tina looked at Bette and patted the couch next to her.

    “I’m not.  Don’t get me wrong Bette, it breaks my heart to think of the pain you’ve had to live with, but I’m glad you were able to share it with me…In a way it explains a lot.  I mean, you have to know that I also have my own fears about us not making it.  I mean I worry that you might not be cut out for this sort of ‘one woman’ life.  In a way this kind of explains things. You know,  why you haven’t committed to someone in the past.  You know?”

    Bette gave Tina a weak smile and nodded.  Tina took Bette’s hand and said.

    “So Babe, do you think you can tell me about it?”

    Tina looked at Bette with so much love, understanding and acceptance that Bette was feeling her strength return.

    “Tina, I’ll try…”

    Tina smiled and encouraged her to continue.

    “I guess I’ll start with the beginning.  My father was married to Kit’s mom when he met my mother, a young artist from a well to do Boston family.  She was fresh out of college, Barnard, living the Bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village.  My father was several years older, but apparently they both fell hard.  He left his wife and Kit and he and my mother married as soon as the divorce was final.  My mother’s family disowned her and my father’s family distanced themselves from them, choosing to keep Kit and her mother in the fold, which was probably for the best.  Well anyway, my father had become pretty successful at his law firm and decided to branch out on his own.  By the time I was born, he was working like a mad man to make the firm successful and he was also knee deep in the Civil Rights Movement, which made for many, many lonely nights for my mother.  She was in a new city, in a biracial marriage at a time when tensions were very high.  Not a great recipe under the best of circumstances. 

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    6. “You brought me Christmas.” CUTE! :) Bette is rather complicated isn’t she? JB said she choose her to play because she (Bette) was so troubled. Troubled and completely disfunctional are two different things. Thank God she was sane. She simply has her moments. Mostly insecurity shows up from time to time. Which manifest as fear. I’m glad in the series we were able to see Bette grow out of some of it in the end.

    15. I thought we were done with heavy stuff??? What happened to Bette in her childhood is terrible.Tin is the rght person to take away this hidding fear of Bette. PPVS

    17. That was so moving. Bette is so fortunate to have Tina in her life. She has finally found someone who loves her enough to go through her pain with her and help her to heal. Thanks for this amazing update.

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