"They sat in their living room, covered in oversize portraits of their sons, and wondered just why their divorce filing was getting so many headlines. Was it a slow news day? They said that the road to heaven is paved with good intentions, when it is clearly the road to hell, and then they questioned why anyone would pave the road to hell."
"They mostly boil down to "OMG, WTF are we gonna do about this B?" The first, and my favorite, conversation about her comes from Rachel and Erika. Rachel says Dorit brought up her complaints about Amanda talking about her marriage, and Rachel seemed excited for them to get into it. Then, when Amanda mentioned it was the anniversary of her son's death, "I just went dark.""
The wealthy women perform ostentatious, trivial tasks: an Uber driver carries two large cakes while the women totter in giant heels, clutching an unclasped handbag. They sit amid oversized portraits of their sons and question why a divorce filing attracts headlines, speculating about slow news. They invoke and mock religious proverbs, conflating the road to heaven with a road to hell and imagining a paved descent for fashionably doomed sinners. Conversation centers on Amanda Frances, whose new presence provokes gossip, harsh judgments, and a viral-sounding, 'OMG, WTF' reaction. Rachel and Erika debate Amanda's openness after she mentions her son's death; Rachel 'went dark.'
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