Although she seemed unique to me then, I now know that the world is filled with working women raising children by themselves. There was nothing especially original about my mother... not even in the way she brought her sons back together again.
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Narrator/Older Doug The truth about our mother and Lloyd didn't comfort Jacey, because the truth seemed to him just as unfair as the lie he had always believed in.
Lloyd Abbott I'm sorry about your mother.
Doug Holt Your sorry?
Lloyd Abbott You didn't know your mother at all if you think someone like me would ever stood a chance with someone like her.
Narrator/Older Doug My mother was right; if the Abbotts didn't exist, Jacey would have had to invent them, but it seems to me that inventing the Abbotts was something that almost everyone in Haley did, and still do. Alice reunited with Peter, lived out the same lie of a happy marriage that her mother and father have lived, and a new generation of Abbott parties began.
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