"oh, the things you do to me, little birdy"
"you've changed me, mr. macfarlane."
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Bernadette "Birdie" Taylor-Lawrence is traditional, classy, and the definition of elegant. She was raised and conditioned this way from her overly strict and conservative mother. But to Bernadette, it sometimes feels like a mask. "You must act like the proper lady. Be the perfect wife. Always look your best." Was her mother's words that she had no choice to live by. Bernadette married young, her mother's wishes, to Tucker Lawrence. Tucker was born wealthy, and a vice president to a fortune 500 company in New York City, which was enough for Vera Taylor to arrange her daughter with. This is not how Bernadette thought her life would turn out. This isn't her true self, but knowing her life is secure, and her family is happy, has kept her settled. She knows there is more to life to explore, indepence is out there. All Bernadette wanted to do was become a writer, find what true love and romance is, but her mother always shut her down.
But everyone has a breaking point.
Bernadette's life hits a 180 when Sydney Lewis, her best friend, gets a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to interview with a company in Los Angeles, California. Sydney wants Bernadette to go with her so she doesn't travel alone, and Bernadette obliges, wanting nothing more to finally travel semi by herself, where she can clear her mind, and get away from her absent but overbearing husband.
The husband soon gets forgotten, as she bumps into Seth.