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That evening Ginger answered her doorbell and saw Joseph down on bended knee. Her heart skipped a beat. She looked at him curiously. “What are you doing?”
“Didn’t the receptionist give you my message?” he asked.
Ginger thought about the phone call. “She said you were gonna give me a ring this evening.”
“It’s six o’clock in the evening,” Joseph said.
She was even more curious. Ginger wondered what he was up to. “Okay. And?”
Joseph reached in his shirt pocket and presented Ginger with a two-carat platinum pear-shaped diamond ring. “What are you doing for the rest of your life?”
THE END
Book Club
Discussion Questions
1. Celeste, Portia and Ginger had been best friends since high school. What happened that caused them to turn on each other?
2. Why did Ginger endure an abusive relationship for so long? Why did she finally end it?
3. What was Portia’s attraction to married men?
4. Celeste kept a dark secret from her husband. What was it?
5. Anthony walked out on Celeste when he learned that she had deceived him. Do you think he overreacted?
6. Joseph Banks entered Ginger’s life and turned it upside down. Why was it so difficult for her to accept him?
7. Why and when did Portia end her adulterous affair with David Hall?
8. In chapter three the damsels got into an argument and didn’t speak for weeks. What happened that brought them back together?
9. Do you think Portia will ever get over her attraction to men with lots of money?
10. Ginger tried to kill Ronald when she knew he couldn’t defend himself. Did she do the wrong thing?
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