The Perfect Wife
The Life and Choices of Laura Bush
Chapter One
Midland
We feel really fortunate to have grown up in
West Texas where I think values are really rock
solid. It's not very easy to be
pretentious.... West Texans will call you down
immediately. I think that gave us a really solid
base.
- Laura Bush, in the Midland Star-Telegram,
September 5, 2002
She was seventeen, a few days past her birthday
in her senior year, a girl with her daddy's car
keys. There was a party, on a weeknight. That
wasn't much the sort of thing Jenna and Harold
Welch let their girl do, go to a party in the
middle of the week. But really, Laura was such a
good girl, this only child of theirs, an angel,
a love. She had never given them a moment's
trouble. She was steady and smart and quiet, and
her friends were the Brownies she knew from
grade school. She always laughed at her father's
jokes; he was a cutup, easy and friendly and
open. She always sat by her mother, though. On
visits to her grandmother some hours away, Laura
and her mother would take turns reading in the
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