" Mother, this is really not a good time to be talking on the phone," Dorothy " Dodie" Giadello Angeletti said in a distracted manner as she stood in her ever trashed living room in her Pittsburgh family house. Actually the house of her mother and stepfather but it was hers and her own family now that they had moved to Maryland for some ridiculous reason. She saw one of her six children chasing one of the others through the hallway and up the stairs.
" Franco ! And Mario ! You both stop running in the house! ," she screeched even as she still heard steadily running feet and screaming over top of her head. " Mary Grace, come clean up your mess ! "
Glory, in a pained sounding voice, said," I know it's not, Dodie but I need to tell you....."
" Tell me what, Mother? ," Dodie interrupted as she accidentally tripped over the video game console that had been left out in the middle of the floor. Again. Sometimes she felt like she was talking to herself around here. " Just tell me already. I need to get off the phone. "
" I have breast cancer. I'm having surgery on Wednesday. "
Dodie froze where she stood, the phone in her hand, surrounded by mess. She couldn't move. She couldn't speak.
" Dodie ? Are you still there? "
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ODDS OF LOVE : SEASON ELEVEN
Narrativa generaleThe ongoing soap opera about the trials and tribulations of disabled math professor and genius Spencer Norland - Lane , his doctor husband DuBuis Lane and their family and friends in the Washington DC area.
