I need you.įrowning at my phone in the dark, I wondered what this could be about. It was a text no one wants from an ex-boyfriend at one in the morning on a Tuesday night. She tells me I have caused one that people will be talking about for years to come. We believe in modesty, courtesy, and-above all-discretion.Īccording to my mother, Margaret Whitney Thurber Lewiston (known to all as Muffy), nothing says poor taste-or worse, new money-like Causing a Scene. Also the Belleek vase), and I certainly don’t throw things indoors.īecause I was raised with manners. I’ve never thrown much of anything, which is probably why I had a bit of trouble hitting the target (I have apologized profusely to Mrs. Honestly, I’ve never thrown food in my life. My composure rarely slips, and it certainly doesn’t slip in a room full of donors to my father’s Senatorial campaign. I, Margot Thurber Lewiston, pride myself on my ability to control my emotions. And anyone who knows me will tell you it was utterly out of character. Not that hurling a tray full of scones-one at a time, with admittedly poor aim-at your ex-boyfriend is behavior to be commended. Furious as I was, even I could not bring myself to desecrate a snowy white, crisply starched Brooks Brothers button-down. (Just so you know, that was only because of the shirt he wore. Second chances are not given to make things right, but are given to prove that we could be even better after we fall.Īnd really, I think that’s what everyone should be focused on: the supreme restraint, the Buddhist-like control, the fucking regal nature with which I glanced at the award-winning Cheery Cherry Delight and decided against it.

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After we fall by melanie harlow