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BUBBLES AND BRUNO
Recently-widowed Americans with taxable estates sometimes assuage their grief by taking cruises around the Aegean Sea. Susan, who just lost her husband Bob to a long illness, flies to Athens and boards the S.S. Love Boat.
At dinner on her second evening at sea, Susan meets Bruno. Bruno is a thirty-something former model who just became the ship's dance instructor. He likes wealthy older women and understands thoroughly the intricacies of California's joint-tenancy law.
One salsa lesson leads to another. Bruno's attentions, designed and practiced to resurrect an older woman's self image from the realities of grief and the long-term effects of American fast food, quickly lift Susan's spirits to almost-forgotten highs. In less than a week the couple have their own Greek wedding. They honeymoon in southern Italy, downing bottle after bottle of Barolo, and then board an Alitalia flight to LAX.
Soon convinced that she and Bruno don't need such a big house, Susan sells the home in which she and Bob had raised their three children. She combines the sales proceeds with Bob's life insurance and other monies that she happily takes out of the Susan & Bob Family Trust, and buys a cozier home with a breath-taking ocean view. Title is taken, as is usual, in the names of the husband and wife as joint tenants.
Guess who lives happily ever after in the new nest after Susan dies, mysteriously or otherwise? Describe the expression on her children's faces when they learn as much as Bruno knew about joint tenancy.
Bubbles, as one might guess, is Bruno's female counterpart. She works as a masseuse on the S.S. Love Boat. To read about an equally enterprising but wholly unsuccessful young lady, click the link to Unlucky Molly
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