After Her (2012)
“Patty had remained the consistent high scorer on her JV team all season, often by as much as twenty points, most recently breaking a tie to win in the last seconds of the game—one of the many times I knew she’d hoped our father might be there but wasn’t.
But the CYO team was a lot more competitive and a huge step up in my sister’s basketball-playing life. My sister’s old sneakers had worn right through in a couple of places, to the point where a kid on one team she played against asked if s...he did all her shopping at the town dump. That’s when I broke into my jeans fund to get Patty a good pair of sneakers, which she was wearing for the first time that day.
Now I was back to square one with my jeans fund. And here was Alison, in the very pair of Chemin de Fers I’d been saving up for.
“I saw your dad on TV last night,” Alison said. “My dad said they were thinking of replacing him with someone else, on account of how he still hasn’t caught the Sunset Strangler.”MoreLess
But the CYO team was a lot more competitive and a huge step up in my sister’s basketball-playing life. My sister’s old sneakers had worn right through in a couple of places, to the point where a kid on one team she played against asked if s...he did all her shopping at the town dump. That’s when I broke into my jeans fund to get Patty a good pair of sneakers, which she was wearing for the first time that day.
Now I was back to square one with my jeans fund. And here was Alison, in the very pair of Chemin de Fers I’d been saving up for.
“I saw your dad on TV last night,” Alison said. “My dad said they were thinking of replacing him with someone else, on account of how he still hasn’t caught the Sunset Strangler.”MoreLess
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