“The fact that I had overcome so many obstacles to get here only made it more like PrideAndPrejudice itself. It did not escape my notice that Elizabeth Bennet’s first visit had also been accidental,” writes sarahlovescali
Photo: Ed Rhodes/LOOP IMAGES/Universal Images Group via Getty It was a shoe salesperson who suggested I spend the afternoon at Lyme Park. I was in Stockport, a suburb of Manchester, England, buying a new pair of black Chelsea boots to replace the brown ones I had been wearing for seven years. This salesperson had bright-red hair and knew her way around an eye-shadow palette, and she seemed to truly want to know what I was going to do the rest of the day.
The road behind the pub was steep, and, I told myself, invigorating. The neighborhood was mega fancy, old mansions, and brand-new ones built to look old, with silly names like Brentgate and Oak Crest. I couldn’t see inside, to sun-filled atriums for romantic, new-engagement-ring sex or to hidden nooks and crannies for the illicit extramarital kind, but I’d seen enough episodes of Footballers’ Wives to know they were there.
“I’m afraid I’m lost,” I called out to the man, who was extremely good-looking, perhaps too confident, and looked like he must be Someone. Or maybe he was just a hot dentist with Tuesdays off.“It’s just down the road, there’s a gate, you can’t miss it.” I felt like an idiot but mostly I felt relieved. That said, I was getting a strong whiff of “fucking ordeal.” There was a kiosk. There was a long, winding drive, suggesting, I was not, even yet, where I wanted to be. There were posted fees, so confusing I just wanted to hand over my wallet and run.
I did not say all of this. I don’t know what I said. I hadn’t thought I was going to a place that charged money. I would at this point have tried to get comfortable with parting with some but I didn’t yet understand what I would get for it and we didn’t seem to be getting any closer to an answer.
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