ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID

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ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID

By C.V. and Sandy Thomas

My name is Todd and I am now in college. I sent this story to Sandy Thomas because I want to be a writer. Sandy says that one should start writing about their own life first but I'd never had anything interesting happen. . .until...

We live in a small town on the coast of California, about an hour drive from San Francisco. I could go on and on about how beautiful and breathtaking our coast is but this would turn into a travel guide.

There's only a couple thousand full time residents (mostly retired) and most of them work in our developing tourist business. The most noteworthy attraction other than the miles of rocky shore and secluded beaches is an old mansion on the coast. A local family bought it and they recently renovated it to it's original 30's splendor. They called it the CHEVALIER mansion. I could go on about the restoration but then this is not about "THIS OLD HOUSE".

What this is about is business. The tourist business, a small town and it's survival based on one house. The HOUSE OF BRIDES.

It's also about my best friend, Baily. His father fell over the cliff at the mansion when he was young and his mother was forced to go to work. She started the "HOUSE OF BRIDES"--which struggled until the renovation of the Chevalier mansion.

Suddenly, the town was booming...a San Fran-