Ruth Doan MacDougall

THE HUSBAND BENCH, or Bev's Book
Jen's "Bench Quiz"

by Jennifer Davis-Kay

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A client, Lynne Starling

“Peggy,” after Diana Lynn’s character, and Snowy, of course!

English Leather: Roger, Chaps: Frankie (and boo! if you got that wrong), Christian Dior: Geoff

Roger: true, Bev: false

Poultry farmer and nothing (there was no line for Julia)

Clover

The dreaded Wal-Mart!

Shirley Temple, old crone, yearning-grandmother, Gloria Taylor, coy

“My Truly, Truly Fair,” Guy Mitchell

A Pork chop

A red and green scarf knitted by Mimi

Chocolate chip

Toilet Training

Pork Sausage

Ground turkey and wheat germ

Vachon's is gone; Roger's uncle's store is now a house.
Trask's is now the Gunthwaite Conference & Convention Center, and Varney's is now a self-service gas station.

She can’t stand the loudspeaker music any more.

Bev has a chicken Caesar salad; Roger has the senior-citizen pot-roast dinner, to Bev’s amazement

Liver and onions, ughy-phew

Audrey Hepburn

“Better this trip than last,” she says.

Beverly Lambert, Realtor

White roses

His Berkline recliner

That would be "toot-kay"

Lake Region Small Engine Sales; Old name: Doloff's Small Engine Sales and Service

A spray of forsythia and retrieving and hanging the wicker porch swing

Iceberg green

Kitchen Garden; "Fresh and Healthful Nourishment"

Mémère’s salmon pie and tourtiere

Everett and Shirley Hughes

Sonny Poor, President; Gary Fuller, VP; Gloria Taylor, Secretary; we don't know who was treasurer

Swapping the end table beside his armchair for the dropleaf table under the window

The prospect of seeing Sedona and having a psychic reading

"Miracles happen—ask the angels"

A travel first-aid kit (shades of the ominously enormous one Puddles provided for Bev's first wedding

"My One and Only You"

 

"A Birthday" by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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