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happy and excited, arm in arm with Frankie-Frances-Camilla's daughter, who
had
flown in from Seattle for the occasion. Light from the crystal chandeliers
highlighted Thessaly's sleek chestnut hair, pulled back from her face and into
a
neat roll as she had worn it when she was a dancer. Frankie's hair, dark like
Taxi's, was beginning to be streaked with white, but she was a handsome
woman,
Camilla thought, taller than Taxi or Thessaly, but carrying herself well.
Raffi, Camilla's beloved granddaughter, Taxi and Thessaly's daughter, was a
freshman in the college, delighted at all the attention being paid to her
grandmother.
Camilla looked around the crowded room. It was time to stop sitting like an
elderly dowager duchess in the chair the president had led her to. She stood
up,
champagne glass in hand, so that she could talk more easily with the guests.
Taxi, moving with as much grace as his wife, though he had never done any
professional dancing, came over to his mother, along with a white-bearded man
who was chairman of
the physics department. Camilla introduced them, and the physics, professor
shook Taxi's hand, saying, "It seems that a number of the students are quite
excited by your presence." He sounded interested, but puzzled.
"Taxi is an actor," Camilla said.
Taxi shrugged gracefully. "I'm presently in a soap." "A what?"
Taxi smiled. "A soap opera-daytime television. College students manage to
watch
it, though I doubt if the eminent professors do."
The professor laughed. "No, I'm afraid we don't. My wife and I occasionally
get
in to New York to the theatre."
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"She was."
"Mom, I'm driving back to New York with Thessaly and Taxi so I can fly out
first
thing in the morning. This has been a terrific occasion."
"Frankie, thank you for coming all this way. That means more to me than I can
ever tell you."
Frankie gave her mother a hug. "I wouldn't have missed it for anything."
Raffi joined them, taking Camilla's hand and holding it. "Grandmother, this
is
marvelous. All my friends are wildly excited. I'm so glad Dad could get away
for
it. And you, Aunt Frankie."
"I couldn't be happier," Camilla said. "Not so much about the medal, though
it's
an unexpected honor, but about having my family here."
"I bet you miss Grandfather." "Yes. He'd have been pleased." "I wish I'd
known