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The great thing about returning to blogging after a significant absence is finding your blog friends are still here, alive and writing…and offering challenges similar to a box of chocolates, irresistible–and you can only choose a few.

In my previous blogs I always enjoyed Di’s “3 Things Challenge”, so I’m taking a bite of this one.  Very few rules:  “family friendly”, use the 3 prompt words, and “Tag your responses with 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC”.

The 3 words: resign, design, consign.

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Hedda was caught in the crevice of a rock and a hard place, so to speak.  She was between consigned and resigned to Frank’s design for their future.  He didn’t understand that–it was beyond his comprehension why she made simple things so utterly annoyingly complicated.

If she consigned herself to marrying him, there was no doubt she’d lose herself in the shuffle.  His way was the “best” way…no discussion.

But if she resigned herself to politely ditching this man who, along with being wealthy and influential, had made all her decisions for her during their five-year relationship…she’d have to start over, and she wasn’t sure she possessed skills and energy for that.

In the midst of a midnight ponder, the voice in her head summed up the crux of the matter: “you’d lose yourself if you wed Frank–whereas if you parted ways, you’d only lose Frank.  Catch a clue, he’s been on your last nerve for what–two years?”

She glanced at her open closet and saw the dress he’d chosen for her.  It had a designer label of course, probably cost as much as his last car… But nothing about it was “her”.

Not complicated, she concluded, and took the first fresh breath of independence.  She’d send him a couriered note and block his calls.

©V.Sparrow, 2024