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This story was really touching. It shows how much Waverley and her mother have changed through out the years. She is still, after everything, out to impress her mother and in the story, you can really tell how she still needs her approval to do things. She postpones telling her mother that she is engaged till the very last minute because she doesn’t know how she will react to Rich; she kind of slowly tries to give her obvious clues, like waking her through her apartment where all of Rich’s clothes are thrown about so that she will already know what is going on when she drops the news. She seems happy though, and her mother can probably see this. To Waverly’s surprise, her mother does not object to their marriage, and with her blessing, and some advice for when it should take place, they remain happy. Its quite touching how, after all those years, Waverly’s mother knows when her daughter is happy and knows what is good for her and when she has a good thing going. She probably also took into account that Waverly’s daughter likes Rich a lot and that she needs a father figure when she grows.