by Marie Wilson
In their congratulatory card, Rose and Wanda paraphrased their patron saint: “Good work, Con. We knew you had it in you.”
Two months later, the girls met at The Only Café, where they toasted Dot with a quote from her good friend Alexander Woolcott: “So odd a blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. It is not so much the familiar phenomenon of a hand of steel in a velvet glove as a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds.”
Between frothy slurps of her Brandy Alexander, Rose observed, “Anyone who’d bequeath her entire estate to Martin Luther King Jr. and the NAACP had more than vitriol up her sleeve.” She offered her glass up once more. “To Dorothy Parker, the original Gorgeous Girl!”
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About the Author
Marie Wilson was born in Vancouver, where she attended the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. As a regular contributor to Toronto’s NOW magazine, she wrote a record number of articles for their Naked City feature. She has written for The Globe and Mail, Fireweed, Urban Graffiti, and Burning Ambitions, and she is also the author of the popular blog Vargas Speaks. She lives in Toronto.
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The Gorgeous Girls
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