2 -MY SON, THE BRIDESMAID

1991 SANDY THOMAS ADVERTISING

TV FICTION CLASSICS -3

MY SON, THE BRIDESMAID.

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The characters, companies, and incidents in this book are entirely the products of the author's imagination and have no relation to any person or event in real life.

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Editors and Contributors:

SANDY THOMAS

RENEE' and Annie Warren Eileen

QUOTE BOARD

No matter how many times I proof this book,

I'll never catch the errors that show up at the printers. However perfektion is the qoal?

MY SON,

THE BRIDESMAID

by Dawn Bell

Prologue

Evelyn Wilkes had gotten over the untimely death of her husband, Frank. He was killed in a traffic accident five years ago, in a cab, while on his way to the airport. The negligence of the other driver was proven in court and Evelyn had received over $1 million dollars in compensation. So, she certainly didn't need to work anymore. But she enjoyed her work. Evelyn had started using her creative talents and exceptional seamstress skills to help out a few friends by dreaming up and sewing prom dresses and bridesmaids' gowns. The quality and style of her creations soon built up her reputation and before she knew it she had friends of friends, and even strangers, knocking on her door, begging that she sew some dresses for their formal occasion needs. This led to her starting something of a hobby business out of her home. It was something that she enjoyed doing and was quite profitable to boot. Soon she bought a larger Georgian style house (plantation style) and made her shop in the front. The large pillars matched the 'formal' image of her business.

She shared her work with her twin children, Robin and Patricia. Trish, as everyone called Patricia, had been helping her with the actual sewing, hemming and modeling after school and on weekends for the past two years. Robin would help with cleaning up and running errands from time to time. Frank Wilkes had always tried to "make a man out of the boy." He was named after the stalwart, Robin Hood.

He felt somewhat guilty that his travelling sales job didn't provide enough time for him to be with his son. So when he was home, he kind of over did it. He took Robin to all kinds of sporting events, wilderness camping and the