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Summertime Girls on Chanel Bonfire

Minneapolis Summers…

One of our summer babysitters, Beverly, with Robbie, her summer hair going wild, holding her teddy bear Guthrie (named for Sir Tyrone) and our friend Grettie. I think I took this picture.  Daddy would hire a girl to watch us while he was in rehearsal.  After a production started he’d spend the days with us himself and the babysitter would only come at night to put us to bed.  

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Posted by Wendy Lawless  Chanel Bonfire, children of divorce, divorce, divorced kids, Guthrie Theater, James Lawless, Minneapolis, Robin Lawless, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, summers with your dad, Summertime, Wendy Lawless

My mother was not “beautiful” but she was striking — the kind of woman every man would look at when she entered a room.

“A week later, a postcard arrived from the Caribbean.  In my mother’s curly, perfect Catholic-school handwriting she wrote that she was there with my stepfather, she wanted a divorce, and that the weather was warm and sunny.” — Chanel Bonfire
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Posted by Wendy Lawless  Chanel Bonfire, divorce, Georgann Rea, Holly Golightly, Nassau, Oliver Read, Wendy Lawless