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Candy Learns The Facts of Life
by MsRefusenik Candy is the 15-year-old daughter of Tiffany, a spoiled, petty, materialistic, greedy and ultra-image conscious "lady" who dresses in ruffles and bows and puts bows in her hair as if she were seven instead of 34. Candy doesn't have much respect for her mother, but then she is a teenager. She likes to pretend that her best friend Judy's mother, Sydney, is her real mother and she was snatched at birth by the evil Tiffany. Sydney is a single mom with four kids who works as a paramedic. Candy can't get over the fact that this woman is out saving lives while Tiffany is out shopping for new lipsticks. Life is unfair when your 15. Candy loves to spend the night at Sydney's because she is treated like an intelligent adult and no mind games are played just for kicks. Tiffany loves to mess with her mind. She will tell her that she is running away from home with a man she met at a bar and that Candy is on her own from now on. Then she gets in the car, drives to 7-11, buys a pack of cigarettes, comes home and laughs and laughs because Candy believed her trashy mother quite capable of doing something like that. Sydney knows Tiffany and doesn't much care for her, but would never say anything against her to Candy. After all, she IS the girl's mother for better or for worse. Candy's dad is such an ineffectual little wimp of a former man after being dissed all these years by his wife, that he doesn't cause a single ripple in the stagnant tidepool of their dysfunctional family. He mostly nods his head and goes along with whatever agenda Tiffany has created now. He is in a book club because Tiffany thinks it looks "smart" to be in a book club, but he hasn't read anything but the sports section of the newspaper in the past 15 years. He sits and nods during the discussions. He golfs because Tiffany thinks a man should golf like her daddy did. He hates golf with a passion and usually ends up drunk at the club before the game is over. He has recently taken up scrapbooking because Tiffany wants the family pictures preserved nicely to show company when they have guests. His secret delight is cutting Tiffany's head out of family pictures and gluing them onto the page like that. Tiffany never notices. Read more.

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