Another World Today #270: What Do You Really Want?
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“I had to,” Amanda huffed and puffed. “Had to show him – them – that I couldn’t be pushed around. You let people like that think they can push you around, they’ll never stop doing it.”
Marley nodded thoughtfully. “That’s the conclusion I reached, too. Half a century of being good, docile, forgiving Marley was enough. I realized if I didn’t put a stop to people taking advantage of me, nobody else would.”
“And how’s that working for you?” Amanda asked, not sarcastic, but sincere. She really wanted to hear the answer.
Marley shrugged, non-committal.
“Same,” Amanda agreed.
“I really thought things would be different once I started refusing to be the world’s doormat anymore. But, instead, all I got were concerned looks and people telling me I’d changed. Of course, I’d changed. I wanted to change. But, I wasn’t the Marley they remembered and, it didn’t matter that I was happier now, they wanted the old Marley back. The one they were used to. As long as I was suffering silently, all was right with the world. Me standing up for myself threw off the status quo.”
“Are you?” Amanda asked.
“Am I what?”
“Are you… happier now?”
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Marley and Amanda compare notes and find surprising common ground, Russ is caught between Iris and Rachel's ongoing feud, Sarah and Kirkland brace themselves for Grant, Allie makes a confession to Zeno, Cass reveals the scope of Eduardo's favor, and Donna has a proposition for Lorna. Should she accept?
You decide at: http://www.anotherworldtoday.com/2014/2014_270.html