After high school,we became roommates, & rented a beautiful farmhouse together, like that of "Walton's. We quickly became best friends, lived 5.1 miles apart,walked to each others houses,almost every day,& became a part of each others families. She was a little angel from above,in my time of sorrow. I had told her I had just lost my father.She insisted that we get together. At the end of that class & over that summer, Cindy called me. It was then that we had exchanged phone numbers. We were chosen to read the parts of the horses.My part, Clover & Cindy's part, Mollie.
We were studying "Animal Farm", by George Orwell.
Unfortunate, because as long as it holds up, however unsteadily, it's pretty funny.I first met Cindy in 8th grade, in an English Literature class. Although Livvy and her mother are well drawn, most of the rest of her friends and relatives are not, and the story collapses under its own weight. Things wind down rather quickly after that: Raymond finds another victim Rosella and Livvy make up and Livvy gets to know her mother before she wanders off again. Told with an attractive, deadpan wit, the melodramatic plot reaches its apogee during the confrontation between Livvy and the town authorities, when her ditsy mother wanders in. Raymond spins grand plans of selling her house and running away to New York City when she pulls back, Raymond reports her to the authorities. His attentions sharpen her growing loneliness, but dull her previous ability to see through pretensions. Handsome, attentive and sensitive, he chooses her to listen to his stories about a CIA father, a tragic love affair and his past career in commercials. With the help of her grandmother's legacy, ingenuity, and her neighbors, she does well until Raymond comes to town. Livvy (Olivia) is content to be on her own, confiding only in best friend Rosella, as the alternative is to live with her terminally self-righteous Uncle Sargeant. Kumquat is a small town populated by amiable eccentrics including Livvy Lee, 15 and on her own since her grandmother died, and her father of alcoholism and ""acute procrastination"" her mother went out two years ago and since then has sent one postcard from Disneyland.
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