‘’How is Marilyn doing in that damn animal kingdom she relocated to?’’ Agnes’ mom asked her when she arrived back home.
‘’Are you calling Lion an animal kingdom?'’ Agnes asked, breaking into a burst of throaty laughter at how her mom always easily came up with these aliases. She was very good at twisting words around to paint a picture from whichever other point of view hit her at the moment.
‘What would you rather call it apart from that?’ Her mom asked, returning Agnes' cheerful laughter.
''Marilyn is fine though. Have you not spoken with her since she left?'’ Agnes asked.
Mrs Makaloughson was a stern woman, even though she loved her children she scolded them more than she played with them. So she and Marilyn always fell out. She was part of the reason Marilyn made the impulsive
