Status Updates From Rosarita

Mother had been an art student&brought a touch of adventure, some romance into the rigid routine of his life - till she went 'too far'... to study that art. If so, she'd abandoned it - you recall [her] expression that seldom showed pleasure or became animated, of disappointment, distress, failure, failure that allowed Father to assume the look, the posture of success,&most importantly, the only success in that house.