It's the common problem of children who have been doted over too much. And she doesn't have the courage to be honest with any of them about where she wants to go in her life. She has a med-student boyfriend who models himself after her father, but who doesn't really understand her needs or aspirations. She doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of her physician father social work with inner-city girls from broken families is more to her liking. She wants to do what makes her parents happy-if only it made her just as happy. Camille Livingston (singer Monica Arnold) doesn't know when she's got a good thing, but it's just not her thing. One of them has no boyfriend the second contends with the good sex and black-activist provocations of her lover and the third has a fairy-princess future mapped out for her. The young black college girls in the new movie "Love Song" seem to be suffering some of the same problem. It's still the same for women from generations past, waiting to get got, hoping and, more than not, settling for something less than the dream. This is probably what made it a best seller-the common ground women from different races tread in search of love and happiness. ![]() ![]() "Waiting for Exhale" was a marvelous title to give a book about women (in this case, black women) waiting for the right man to mosy on their way, but it didn't seem to touch on anything that white women haven't been encountering in much the same way.
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