By Leslie Carroll
40 is awesome for Tessa Craig. Heck, she has it all—a glamorous activity as a political speechwriter, a long island duplex, and a good-looking boyfriend, Congressman David Weyburn, whose integrity, air of mystery, and beauty have made him his party's emerging superstar. yet her fabulosity fizzles whilst scandal moves, and Tessa watches helplessly as her possible satisfied love lifestyles and profitable profession cave in like a home of playing cards. Tessa realizes it is time to embark on a brand new trip, one she must have made decades in the past. it is a journey that takes her to the Emerald Isle and again, best her middle in unimagined instructions. She makes new acquaintances, all at once adopts a brand new relatives (or do they undertake her?), and discovers unanticipated love with silver-tongued, green-eyed, aspiring pub proprietor, Jamie Doyle. And, most significantly, Tessa makes that uphill climb over the rainbow to discover the final word pot of gold: Herself.
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Herself 37 The subject of my sexual orientation is not the subject of this morning’s press conference, nor should it be a matter of consideration, or an issue, in my re-election campaign. ” “The lady doth protest too much,” shouts Jennings into his microphone. “I welcome any questions on the Cruise Ship Accountability and Culpability Act. ” David steps away from the mic, and Gus Trumbo and I walk alongside him into the mercifully air-conditioned passenger ship terminal. “Well, that was a fucking zoo,” Gus says in his characteristically blunt way.
Tess, I’m just not good at this,” he says suddenly, the words tumbling out of him. “I care about you deeply, I’m immensely fond of you, I think you’re a stunning woman, and God knows you’re the smartest one I’ve ever known . . but I . . ” If he had cracked me in the head with a baseball bat, I 42 Leslie Carroll couldn’t have been more shocked, nor could it have hurt any more than his last few words. ” I say, too shaken to sit. “I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. In fact, it’s just about all I’ve been doing for the past few days.
You’ve just had 26 Leslie Carroll heart surgery, my love! Deep fried fish is Public Enemy Number One when it comes to your arteries. And even if the dish were on your diet from now on, fish and chips isn’t the kind of thing that survives a trip any longer than the fifteen-foot distance from the Pot o’Gold’s kitchen to your table. ” “Does this heart thing mean I have to eat nothing but Salade Niçoise for the rest of my natural life? ” David suddenly winces. I panic. ” “Just the thought of suffering through that sound bite again and again.
