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Originally posted by Julia@Mar 28th, 2003 - 1:24 pm
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I think what Caroline means when she says "Everything happened too quickly. Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married," was not that she didn't want to marry and everyone else wanted her to, but rather that living with Junot was not an option, it was marriage only, that her parents would accept. I read a later interview with her where she said that had she lived with Junot for a year instead of marrying him, the relationship would have run its natural course and they would have split up do to incompatibility and gone their separate ways.
What is interesting to me is that-what-seven? years later, Stephanie was refused permission to marry her boyfriend at the time, so she took off for Los Angeles and lived with him there, until they split up, all the while without losing loving contact with Rainier. He even visited them and bought them stuff for their house. So it may well have been Grace who would not have tolerated Caroline living with anyone outside of marriage. It would fit in with the total picture of Grace's very tight supervision and control of Caroline.
Then again, Stephanie was indulged and spoiled far more than Caroline ever was - something Grace admitted freely - and Caroline understandably had a sense of frustration over this. She always felt a responsibility to do the "proper" thing, while Stephanie did her own thing.