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"Romeo Man?" Emma laughed.
"I like to throw in the occasional quaint expres-
sion," Sam said.
"Oh, it's quaint, all right," Carrie agreed.
"Hey, my motto is, live on the edge of possibil-
ity," Sam decreed blithely. "Knowing Mr. Tall,
Dark, and Rich could walk into my life at any
moment sort of keeps me going through my ten
zillionth high kick at the Wonderful World of
Disney. Sometimes I don't think I can stand it
another millisecond," Sam said.
"It was your choice," Carrie pointed out. "You're
the one who wanted to drop out of college to take a
job dancing there."
"Right," Emma agreed. "You could quit if you
wanted to, and go back to school."
"Pardonnez-moi, but some of us have to work
to pay the bills," Sam told Emma huffily, "though I
realize this is not a concept to which you can
relate."
Emma's money was a sore point with Sam, and
sometimes Sam pounced on Emma's most inno-
cent remarks. Emma was rich. Sam was not.
Actually, different as all three of them were in
background and personality, it still amazed them
that they had become friends at all, much less
best friends.
Emma was a Cresswell of the Boston Cress-
wells, one of the wealthiest families in the country.
She had never had to do a day of work in her life.
In fact, she'd shocked her parents the summer
before, when she'd taken a job as an au pair on
Sunset Island. Emma had been educated in
Europe, spoke five languages, and was on a
first-name basis with royalty. She longed to
escape from the hypocritical, narrow confines, of
the life prescribed for herЧmaybe even to join
the Peace Corps one dayЧbut so far she hadn't
been able to get up the nerve to confront her
overbearing mother with her decision. Instead
she just continued along as a French major at her
mother's alma mater, snooty Goucher College,
trying to decide what she really wanted to do and
hoping that she hadn't been a pampered rich girl
for so long that she no longer had what it would
take to follow through with her dreams.
Carrie Alden came from an upper-middle-class
family in New Jersey, where both her parents
were pediatricians. Level-headed Carrie, who had
always been an excellent student, was thrilled to