Should I just sell this whole property? I guess I’d have to ask Darlene.
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Darlene
Darlene called Joanie early Friday afternoon.
“You’re home?” Joan asked. “I thought you were gone until next Sunday.”
“We came back early,” Darlene explained. “It was boring. All we did was lay there and do nothing.”
“But it was a beach! Isn’t that what you went there to do?” She seemed amazed.
Darlene laughed. “Yes, but all I kept thinking about is what you were doing.”
“What I was doing?” Joan exclaimed. “I was thinking about what you were doing! I was imagining you swimming in the waves and lying on the sand.”
“And that’s exactly what I was doing, all the time, every day. Sandy and I were bored silly.”
“You didn’t go out to have fun?”
“We went shopping one day, but nothing looked enticing
