Sardines and Applesauce

Paul Wilker is a 24 year old man who is working at his uncle’s auto repair garage. On a beautiful Sunday in March, 1964, Norma pulls into the service station with car trouble. Paul quickly discovers that her problem cannot be repaired until the following day and offers to take her home several towns away. Norma accepts and they travel to her home. She is gorgeous and models clothing for catalogs. Paul soon learns that her family is very wealthy and also own a very successful publishing company. They live in an affluent area of their town. Paul is immediately attracted to her but is leery of the fact that she seems attracted to him where she could easily have about any man she wanted. Paul’s thoughts about Norma are well founded because she has no romantic interest in him. Her mother ,Rita, likes Paul right away and proposes to sign the entire business over to Norma and her sister Meredith as soon as Norma and Paul are married. Norma is plotting to have her family’s business turned over to her, then divorce Paul and marry her brother in law Brent, Meredith’s husband, as soon as he divorces her sister. Norma and Brent have been romantically involved secretly for a long time. She convinces her father to give Paul a good position at the publishing plant which he does and even grooms him for a manager’s position at an additional plant that is to be opened shortly. Norma is most convincing as she lures Paul in and leads him to believe that she truly cares for him and wants to marry. Both she and Brent’s greed is endless with no regard for anyone else’s feelings. Paul suspects nothing but meets another girl at the plant and begins to develop feelings for her but decides not to hurt Norma. He figures that he will marry Norma and take over the new publishing plant. Things should work out this way. He will have a beautiful, sexy wife and a high paying position. It appears to be a dream come true for most men.