All the Houses
“He invited me to do things with him and his daughter, and had I been in L.A., or some other place where I had more friends, I would’ve been more leery of his overtures. I probably would’ve avoided him. But at Nina’s basketball game, he’d asked whether I wanted to come along with the two of them to a museum that weekend—Nina had a school assignment that required her to go there—and I said that I would. I didn’t have other plans. As it turned out, Daniel had to catch up on work that day, and so I... went just with Nina.
The stone archway that spanned the museum entrance was decorated with bas-relief figures of every kind: bulls, cherubs, small-membered satyrs, miscellaneous pineapples. Nina studied a poster about upcoming events, as though she might go to one of them. She wore the same Converse sneakers drawn on with marker that she’d worn at the Hunan Palace, the same black hoodie. She was just a girl, I kept being reminded of that.
“You have so many buttons,” I said as we presented our bags to the security guard.MoreLess
The stone archway that spanned the museum entrance was decorated with bas-relief figures of every kind: bulls, cherubs, small-membered satyrs, miscellaneous pineapples. Nina studied a poster about upcoming events, as though she might go to one of them. She wore the same Converse sneakers drawn on with marker that she’d worn at the Hunan Palace, the same black hoodie. She was just a girl, I kept being reminded of that.
“You have so many buttons,” I said as we presented our bags to the security guard.MoreLess
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