Chapter 10Jimmy
“So, there we all went, the entire family, traipsing down to Spring Lake.”
“I’m not familiar with that town. Where is it?”
“Oh, this fancy-ass town down the Jersey Shore. Rich people live there.”
“Like Kerry-Anne?”
“Yes. Mrs. Kerry-Anne Hardesty. As she liked to call herself down there.” She attempted a hoity-toity voice that wouldn’t win her a Tony Award.
“Well, if that was her home, and her married name…”
Vera Conklin snuffed out a second cigarette. “Born a Conklin, always a Conklin.”
Jimmy had been invited back to the home shared by Freddy and Vera Conklin, and at the moment he didn’t feel like contradicting the fact that she, herself, had married into the family, not the same as being born. But doing so might end this conversation faster than he wanted. Too many
