s did when she thought of her husband. &#8220;Finally, Alex, I&#8217;ve done something right.&#8221; </p>
<p class="excerpttext">She hadn&#8217;t been a good parent to Carly. She knew that. While Carly&#8217;s friends had thought she had the coolest mother imaginable because she didn&#8217;t nag Carly about her grades or impose curfews like their mothers, Carly herself had needed something different. She&#8217;d needed stability and structure and order. Since she, Charlotte, had been incapable of providing 