![]() ![]() Who had to work twice as hard only to settle for good-enough. “…the self-conscious introvert whose mother was always pushing her to fit in despite not having the right clothes or the right hair or the right name. With a journalist’s keen eye, she quickly spots the power squad on the block and innocently asks around about the Ivy Five (or, Four).ĭesperate to be accepted, she longs to host gatherings, volunteer at bake sales, chair planning committees, and wear the coveted bejeweled pin in the shape of an ivy leaf to mark her as “one of them”: Theresa is eager to fit into her new upper-crust environment, so different than the one she grew up in, with a mother who cleaned houses in the same neighborhood she now calls home. Intelligent, attractive, married to the newly hired Woodard High School principal, and mother to freshman Lily, Theresa checks all the boxes for a potential “fifth” to make the Ivy Five complete again. For the wives and mothers of the Ivy Five, it is a badge of pride 15 years running.Įxcept the Ivy Five is actually four and has been for a long time…but that changes when Theresa Pressley and family move into the cul-de-sac. For the posh community on Ivy Woods Drive, the annual block party is the event of the year, with creepy costumes, props, and decorations adorning the idyllic suburban dream homes as the children trick or treat and the adults get soused. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every Halloween, the influential neighborhood clique known as the “Ivy Five” throws one killer soiree. ![]()
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