Frances The Girls In Their Summer Dresses

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When a selfish man is forced to come face to face with his selfish problem, he will have a hard time adjusting to change. In The Girls in their Summer Dresses, Frances finally gathers the courage to ask Michael to stop looking at other women, but in the end he will never change his ways and the couple will live a loveless relationship. Frances makes a great effort to have a good time with her husband, and this is clear when she speaks of an afternoon date. "First let's go see a football game. A professional football game,”…The Giants are playing. And it'll be nice to be outside all day today and get hungry and later we'll go down to Cavanagh's and get a steak as big as a blacksmith's apron, with a bottle of wine, and after that, there's a

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