Do girls settle?: An experiment in writing (1995?)

Do girls settle, like Rhys says they do?

I think it is more likely, that they convince themselves that they are in love with someone, not a hard thing to do since as girls, we are supposed to be in love with men and especially with men who want us and think we are worth having.

These Dieter girls. . .

Is Kate one of the 3 D’s who were the editors of the school magazine?

I must write to the Jasper county historical society and see what I can find out about the school records of Sarcoxie and Joplin.

I can imagine that Kate had a quick mind and a sharp tongue like Katie. I can see her saying funny smart things all the time until her brothers began dying and then slowly nothing was funny again.

Kate is such an unknown character. 

How it seems that I have found out a little about each of the children but hardly anything about Kate.

I don’t think that my grandmother settled for Max but I think that she was crazy about him and married him and then, years later, settled for him.

When she took him back, after so many years of marriage. When she moved from Joplin to go to California with him…that is when she settled.

. . .And I think that my mother settled for the life of a widow.

I think that she tried for a while not to settle but I think that she became too tired and so she settled for the life of a widow with children.

If she had lived, I wonder what she would have done. She might have eventually married Uncle Fred, after Helen died…that is pretty wild.

She would have been so happy to see her kids grow up and marry and have babies……

I wonder if I settled.

I think I fell in love with David and thought he was wonderful and came to Ann Arbor and lived the life I always wanted to live, writing, reading, talking about history with a person I trust and who loves me.