Ah the weekend!
Time to write up comments!
Now that Kate was also divorced, they always tried to coordinate and hang out during the rare evenings that both sets of kids were with their dads and neither woman had a looming work deadline. But it had been a few months since they’d actually pulled it off, and Lois was grateful for the opportunity to see her friend and have some uncensored, uninterrupted conversation.
Kate is someone who should have been around during the series. A woman friend Lois could actually have a conversation with that was not Martha, Lucy or Cat. In short, a real friend who was not employed by the Daily Planet or the police. Listening in on the conversation it is obvious these women share a bond and sadly the loss of their marriages.
“Or, even better,” Lois continued, “tell me about that date you went on last weekend. I wanted to ask about it Monday but the kids were around the whole time.”
“Ugh, nothing to tell,” Kate replied, launching into a hilarious, rambling account of the blind date that had been foisted upon her by a work friend.
I have to laugh at this! Kate is the genuine article.
Four years later, Lane and Kent the writing team was a thing of the distant past. Clark’s agent had convinced him to submit his dissertation on ethics in journalism to publishing houses, where it quickly became the object of a bidding war and eventually topped the New York Times’ best seller list for nonfiction when it hit the shelves. And Lois finally had the Pulitzer she’d always dreamed of and a solo book deal of her own.
They were both wildly successful and accomplished. And yet, watching him in her kitchen, she longed for the years when they spent their days cranking out stories in the bullpen of the Daily Planet and their evenings rehashing those stories while he cooked for her.
Two paragraphs were show how much Lois and Clark have grown in their profession separately. Nonetheless, one has to wonder just how well they would have done if the team of Lane and Kent continued. Hmmm, maybe at the end of this story they will team up and write a Pulitzer winning non-fiction book? Come on guys! You are better together than apart!
