A bit more humor…<\/p>\n
She kept turning the bracelet on her wrist and looked up at him, her eyes a little sad. “I remember so clearly the day my mother gave me this. It was the most beautiful day in my life, even though when my parents announced I was going to participate in a debutante ball, I was horrified.” A bit more humor… She kept turning the bracelet on her wrist and looked up at him, her eyes a little sad. “I remember so clearly the day my mother gave me this. It was the most beautiful day in my life, even though when my parents announced I was going to participate in a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-your-regular-info","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>“Why?” he asked. “I thought all women loved all that frippery.”
Gabriela gave him a sardonic grin. “You don’t know much about exiled Cuban parents, do you?”
“Afraid not.”
“To give you a modest example, the month before my debut, my friend Anita was given hers. She made her grand entrance from a fifteen-foot, fake clam shell.”
Richard almost choked on his whiskey. “You’re putting me on.”
“Nope…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"