This is a happy story of five couples that centered on a dance teacher's family. Caroline owns a dance studio and is happily married to public defender Tom. Taffy, Caroline's sister, happened to seek shelter and squat in Caroline's house when her marriage went shaky. Taffy started going out with Caroline's contractor, Woodrow, who is an African American. Kay, Caroline's daughter, is also a public defender. She became engaged to a rich man's son, Trey. Jack, Kay's former boy friend, actually eloped with Taffy's daughter, Holden, just a few days after they met. George, Caroline's youngest son, fell in love with Woodrow's daughter, Erica.
If you want to find out why I like this story so much, you simply have to locate and read it. It has been condensed in one of Reader's Digest volumes. When one is unsure of who is the right person to marry, listen to Tom. Tom dated Caroline for a few months. Caroline was fun, intelligent, caring and a nice girl. Then Tom agreed to celebrate some occasion with her. But somehow he got hold of a much sought after ticket for an important basketball game. He broke the date by pretending to have caught a cold. Caroline actually cooked chicken soup and delivered to his dorm and found out his duplicity. But she still left the soup for him to drink. As he enjoyed every mouthful, he felt very guilty for what he did. A few months later, at the spur of the moment, he turned up just an hour before she was to go for a date and asked her to marry him. His rationale is, he may never meet another girl who would care enough to cook chicken soup for him when he pretended to be sick. More than that, she did not pour the soup over him when she found out. And of course she was decent enough not to take the soup and give it to some body else.
He said "go find a girl who dances, if she cooks you chicken soup when you are sick, then marry her." Very simple advice, what do you think?
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