by Milton Ozaki
"What made you connect Diane with Trottmann, though?"
"Diane was just a younger addition of Giselle. Haven't you ever noticed how men seem to favor a particular type of girl? The psychologists call it a minor manifestation of an Oedipus complex. Sort of a mother fixation. In other words, some men are attracted to girls who remind them of their mother. They don't know it, of course, but the girls they fall for usually look pretty much alike."
Ginny was silent for a moment. "You ever been married, Rusty?"
"Nope."
"What was your mother like?"
"She was a great big woman, sort of a dishwater blonde, who was good-natured and liked kids. She was kind of hot-blooded, I guess, because there were six of us. I can remember her cooking dinner and singing at the top of her voice—"
"Darling!" Ginny's kiss put a period to talking for a while.
I winked at the ceiling.
THE END