By the Light of My Father's Smile
“I saw the police go through his pockets, read his bracelet—which specified the kind of medical attention he required if found collapsed in a heap—and knew they would contact Maria. The air seemed to shimmer before my eyes as I turned toward home. I felt the absence of my parents keenly as I squeezed through my front door. Sighing, I made myself an eye-watering martini and climbed into bed.
Looking at Susannah across the room from me, it is easy to see why she was always everybody’s pet. There i...s a smallness about her, even though she is tall. She is very neat, and sleek. Even while sitting alone in a big chair she turns her body this way and that, as if a giant hand is stroking it.
How is the latest affair? I ask her.
Instructive, she says, and grins.
What is it this time? Man, woman, or succulent plant?
She grins wider.
And Daddy thought I was the tramp, I said.
Are you still angry with me? she bluntly asks, which she’s never done before. It stops me in my tracks. The ones I am making toward a bucket of chicken in the kitchen.MoreLess
Looking at Susannah across the room from me, it is easy to see why she was always everybody’s pet. There i...s a smallness about her, even though she is tall. She is very neat, and sleek. Even while sitting alone in a big chair she turns her body this way and that, as if a giant hand is stroking it.
How is the latest affair? I ask her.
Instructive, she says, and grins.
What is it this time? Man, woman, or succulent plant?
She grins wider.
And Daddy thought I was the tramp, I said.
Are you still angry with me? she bluntly asks, which she’s never done before. It stops me in my tracks. The ones I am making toward a bucket of chicken in the kitchen.MoreLess
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