Like maybe you and I were goodfriends?” She looked at me with astonishment. So at close to the age of fifty, my father had to open his own store. Any movie. One moment there was life in thefaded blue eyes, the next moment it was ashes.
The ones whohad had the most promise in school were now milkmen, used car salesmen, married to fat, stupid deadwomen who had, themselves, been girls of exceeding promise in high school. Mymother worked as his receptionist after they’d been married awhile, and she tells me when the gangsterscame to get drilled and filled, my Dad insisted they check their heat with Mom. He took a can of coconut milk from the small freezer unit, andopened it, drinking straight from the can. ’ I think that was it.
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