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Wind of Change (Circa 1975)
Date: 2/19/2016, Categories: Mature, Author: marlowe, Rating: 1, Source: LushStories
row of snow covered conifers a guiding light to the imposing Georgian mansion welcoming their guests. A brief moment of fleeting glances, eyes meeting in captured smiles, a drooping jaw a clear sign of his admiration, his mind confused with furtive apprehension, his smile slowly fading, a bothersome thought nagging inside his head. My father worked in a hospital and my mother worked for a firm of lawyers. She told him. A fucking hospital porter and a clerk in an office.... I fucking don’t think so. “My father was The Head of Paediatric Neurology in one of the largest hospitals in New York and then he worked for a short time in Boston and Chicago before returning to live in Northumberland,” she said, rather matter-of-fact, interrupting his thoughts. “My mother was a barrister and before she retired she worked at The Royal Courts of Justice, in London. They still occasionally travel around the world to attend and chair lectures, and they’ve both written books on their respective professions,” she concluded, circling a white marble water feature of a gracious biblical lady holding a child before pulling the car to a halt in front of a huge garage forecourt. “I think you’ll like this,” she smiled, taking his hand and heading towards four garage doors, the snow crunching underfoot, a remote control activating the timber doors, his eyes taking a quick tour of the dark enclosure, his jaw dropping again, a beautiful Mercedes-Benz 300, an E-Type Jaguar, a vintage Bentley and the ...