Beau reached for her fifth cup of coffee. She smiled as she brought the cup to her lips. The coffee mug was a Wonder Woman cup; starry blue with a red handle. Her mother gave it to her when she was a child.
Gabrielle Charmayne-Rumpel had been a devotee of the Amazonian warrior princess. Growing up during an era when the feminine archetype was under attack by burning bras, Gabrielle had found her ideal in the 70’s television show. There was no situation Wonder Woman couldn’t handle. No villain she couldn’t outwit. No brute she couldn’t lasso into submission. Gabrielle had seen the woman she wanted to be in the liberated, strong, unconventional, yet still feminine, woman that Lynda Carter portrayed, and she’d passed these ideals on to her only daughter.
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