All the Days And Nights
“The day after he was buried, my stepmother brought out two heavy winter overcoats for me to try on, and then she and my older brother and I went to the storeroom above the garage, and she showed me a brown leather suitcase of my father’s, a much more expensive piece of luggage than I had ever owned. None of this was my idea, but I nevertheless could feel on my face an expression of embarrassment, as if I had been caught out in something. My stepmother was not given to thinking ill of people but... when my brother and I were children he had assumed the role of the prosecuting attorney. I glanced at his face now; nothing unkind there. The coats wouldn’t have fitted him, or my younger brother, and since I was named after my father, the initials on the suitcase were mine, and who would want a suitcase with somebody else’s initials on it? So why did I feel that I had appeared to be showing a too avid interest in the spoils?
Later on that afternoon I started out on foot to call on two of my father’s friends who were not well enough to come to the funeral.MoreLess
Later on that afternoon I started out on foot to call on two of my father’s friends who were not well enough to come to the funeral.MoreLess
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