After being pressed and pressured by her mother with the
topic of the gentlemen callers, Laura finally confided in her mother that she had always
liked someone whom she deems to be some form of crush she has had since
adolescence.
At this time, Laura takes out the high school
yearbook and she points at the picture of Jim, who is a popular and hip class president.
We know that he is important to her in that a) she had read that he was engaged to
another woman and thought with sadness that he was married, b) she remembered his voice
to this day, and c) she remembers how he used to call her "Blue Roses". All this was
huge to Laura, who was an extremely shy girl.
Surely Amanda
would have wanted to have a man like that ask her daughter out, but Laura considered
herself unworthy for being "a cripple" which her mother did not allow her to admit to
be. In the end, Jim did visit the house as per Tom's request, but was engaged to marry
someone else. This were sad and sour news for Amanda who had a very unrealistic hope
that Jim would turn out being Laura's so much sought-after gentleman
caller.
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