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[Continued from “The Invitation”]
True to her word, Lo did email me the next morning. Just before noon I received the missive. She said, briefly, that she and Lily had arrive around 1:00 in the afternoon the previous day and that the cottage is very cute. It’s a two bed, two full-bath place on a vacation destination lake, surrounded by woods. But, according to Lo, it is far from “a small cabin. We’re not talking Thoreau, here,” she said. Each of the bedrooms had its own fireplace and the bathrooms were as large as our master bedroom at home.
She said that she and Lily were greeted by Collin and his wife. Wife?! I had no idea he was married and apparently neither did Lo. Of course Lily did know, but she had never mentioned her aunt to us. According to Lo, Collin and his wife, Suzanne, have a strained relationship. More often than not, Lily would see Collin at family events and not Suzanne. There was always some plausible excuse, but Lily was never very close with Suzanne; Collin being Lily’s father’s brother. But she was at the cabin for this visit. Lo said she was nice enough, though neither Lily nor Lola knew she’d be in attendance.
After they arrived Monday, Collin and Suzanne had a large lunch ready for them and they ate outside. The weather was perfect — in the seventies, sunny, remarkably no mosquitos! After lunch, Collin showed them around…