Ann Pearlman

Every ear at Christmastime, Marine and her closest girlfriends mark their calendars for the cookie exchange. Everyone has to bring a batch of homemade cookies and a bottle of wine, but this year, it's their stories that are especially important - the passion and hopefulness of new romance, the betral and disillusionment some relationships bring, the joy and fears of motherhood, the stress of financial troubles. On this evening, at least the sisterly...