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Chapter 4 – Philadelphia – Day 3
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Tina was laughing: So, you thought your recruits would chicken out?
Bette: I knew they would chicken out. Those were some big ass dogs. I would have if I had been in their shoes.
Tina: Nice crab cakes. How about some more wine?
Bette standing took the appetizer plates away and the serving dishes and placed them on the cart. She then went to the second cart and put on the mitts and retrieved the warm plates with their domes. She placed a clean dinner plate in front of Tina and one at her place.
Bette: Are you ready for your main entrée?
Tina: Yes, this looks intriguing.
Bette: We are having baked sea bass with lemon seasoned rice, and asparagus. Now, before I remove the cover, I must warn you. This fish still has the head on it. Just a warning.
Tina: Oh, that’s nice…. We don’t have to have him looking at us all during dinner, do we?
Bette: No. I’m going to take the fish over here and cut you and I a portion and then put him away.
Tina: So, will this have bones in it?
Bette: Not if I do my job properly.
Bette uncovered the bass who what on a couple of pikes holding it up right like it was still swimming in the ocean. He looked very much alive except there was a coated with some type of bread crumbs or cornflakes on the body of the fish. Bette retrieved the boning knife and cut a vertical slice on front left of the fish just behind the gills. She then cut a vertical slice at about an inch forward of the tail. She then went low on the fish on the left side and cut a horizontal cut from the back slice to the front slice. She then cut another horizontal slice about a half inch below the backbone. Bette then put down the knife and pick up a wide spatula and asked for Tina’s plate. Bette skillfully slid the spatula down the ribs catching the meat and placing it on Tina’s plate breaded side up.
Tina: Wow, were did you learn that?
Bette: When I was in college, I dated this guy who was a waiter and he taught me how to do this. It’s been a while since I’ve done this. Now, I think it should be bone free, but be careful. I am a rank amateur at this.
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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.