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She elaborates. Only a Scorpio can put up with a Scorpio. The cannot live successfully with people who are born under other signs. They are perfectionists in an imperfect world and know they are themselves not perfect, but are pretty sure the potential is there if the world would follow their leadership. Anne asserts that the Scorpio sign produces more leaders than all the rest.

Scorpios, as Anne further describes them, are passionate, possessive, jealous and determined. All of which qualities she and Edward have in abundance. He says, she quotes, that falling in love with her was like falling in love with himself. It is only a step from understanding himself to understanding her.

In their leisure time they enjoy the same things, going to the movies and sports events, in particular baseball. They are Red Sox fans, and when he is out of the reach of a radio, she follows the games and rings him up, wherever he is, to tell him the scores. He, of course, is a tennis zealot, and she is learning the game with moderate enthusiasm. She was a gymnast in her school years and won a silver medal. She is proud of that. Badminton is her strong game. Backgammon and cards are her pastimes.

She says, and one has no choice but to believe her, that she loves to be homebody, and adds that that part of her personality is very important to Edward. For some many Washington years he did everything for himself, and, with that imperative for perfection that plagues Scorpios, his cooking, his cleaning and all of his household chores are of the highest order. She loves that talent in him, and one totally believes her. He not only knows how to do for himself. It is quite agreeable to him to do for her.

In St.Martin it is not that way at all. West Indian men, Anne reports, touch nothing they consider in the female domain. They are lord and master, and the women serve. It would never occur to her brother, whom she adores, and who adores her, to get himself a glass of water if she were there to fetch it for him. But Anne shows no traces of past servitude.

As the interview takes another turn it is a little surprising to hear Anne express the hope that her husband will never return to politics. One thinks otherwise when women marry men who have shone star-bright in the political limelight. But she quickly adds that she will support him in whatever he wants to do. She knows, she says, that he is basically a political animal. People still rush up to him to shake his hand, their eyes meet, the handshake holds, and between them is a moment of involvement and exhilaration. 

But through these early months of her marriage she is glad he is out of politics. Massachusetts' loss is her gain. For this while, she hopes, and for a continuing while, the threats of his life (as on every politician's life), the round the clock hours, the ever ascending pile of work on the burdened desk and all of the tensions will be in abeyance.

He is now a partner in the Washington law firm O'Connor and Hannan and counsel to the Boston law office of Csaplar and Bok; in New York he is connected with the investment firms of E.F. Hutton and Company Inc. and Bear Stearns.

Washington will be the Brookes' winter address this year. Anne will enter George Washington University to work for a master's in business administration. She looks forward to the challenge of earning her master's while adjusting to the rhythm of a big, exciting city. Her world has widened beyond her expectations. 

Melanie will live with her father in Montreal during the school year. She will enter third grade this fall. She attends a French school, and French is the language she hears all around her, but she speaks English well, and she surprised her mother by writing in English in imitation of the interviewer. She is self-taught and probably has inherited her mother's love for languages.

This is not Anne's first summer here, nor Melanie's. They came on a day-trip from Hyannis some four years ago. Two years ago they rented a cottage in Oak Bluffs for a month. Now they have a permanent summer place, which both of them are completely at home in, Edward's sister, Mrs. Helene Amos, and her daughter Peggy making them welcome members of the family. Edward comes weekends, a homecoming.

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