It was interesting to read about house sitting. I was a student when it was both convenient and economical to house sit for friends' friend during the summer.
Here in this book, I read of professional house sitters who bring their little world with them into the house they are bound by contract to care for. That is very different from my amateur days of moving in with sufficient clothing with not much else.
Tess chose to keep her love child, that was the first step towards economic hardship. Then it did not help to have a failed business venture that left debts. It is really familiar. I have a friend who achieved financial success in her mid twenties. She had a few failed relationships and one brief marriage. Some how she kept on with a pregnancy when her partner told her to abort. When her daughter was in her teens, she failed in a daring venture and has unpaid debts since. These two years, she has been slowly clearing her debts to friends and relatives. It was a slow, tedious crawl upwards.
Joe sounded like a much broken man. His avoidance of monogamous relationship sounded like a fear to commit. It is uncanny that my friend's new face book hot friend also goes by the same moniker. Just like the story Secrets, the real live tess and joe could not walk away from each other. Of course a courtship on the internet is very different from that between a house sitter and the land lord. I was much amazed by the frequent quarrels they have had over the net.
Real life is not that different from fiction. In the book, it was ended as they live happily ever after. Although I have known a life group member who actually married her friend whom she met over the net quite a few years ago, I often wonder if such a feat could be repeated.
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