She was equally good at checkers, poker, dominoes, Monopoly, Clue. As she grew older, she mastered the more sophisticated adult games: tactics, strategy, power, manipulation. She was so much brighter than the men she dated. They all bored her until, at the proper time and perhaps because she was last to marry and had nothing better to do, she met Alex Hunter who insisted she marry him and then, since his money was newer than Walken’s, insisted she quit work.
When they were twelve, Nona and Charyn regularly came to Cindy’s house to do homework. David, drawn to the center of giggles, would drift into Cindy’s sweet room to help them with their confounding math (“Why do we have to know how to solve quadratic equations?”), teach them how to bisect an angle with a compass, or explain the connec
