it, Carly had created it for herself.</p>
<p class="excerpttext">Charlotte had always admired that about her daughter, but lately, she had come to realize that Carly had gone too far. She&#8217;d structured her life to include nothing but work: no friends, no men, no dates, no fun. Charlotte had tried to get her daughter to lighten up, but Carly saw every attempt as another example of her mother&#8217;s frivolity. Now they were like the two opposing poles of a magnet, but rather than attracting, they repell