I got this story from Norma at collectingmythoughts, and she got it from a book review of Kitty Kelley’s horrible book about the Bush family.

Laura Welch, the future first lady, was still a mystery to the Bush family on the day she married George W. in 1978. The Bush matriarch, Prescott’s widow, tried to interrogate her after the ceremony.

“What do you do?” the old lady asked her.

“I read,” Laura replied.

I love it! I’m going to steal Laura Bush’s line and use it the very next time someone asks me what I do.