Cast in Stone
“Waterman who is calling?" "Mr.
Waterman." I'd confused her.
"That is who you asked for, isn't it, sir?" she tried again.
"No.
I mean . . . yes, it is. Tell him it's his cousin Leo Waterman calling." "One moment please, Mr. Waterman. I'll try Mr. Waterman." Two years my senior, Paul was the sole issue of the other branch of the Waterman family tree. As the only child of my Uncle Dan and Aunt Helge, Paul was my closest living relative on the paternal side of the family.
My father had, over the ye...ars, arranged a series of increasingly more responsible and thus increasingly more lucrative city jobs for his little brother Daniel. For his part, Uncle Dan, unlike my mother's brothers, had quelled the grumbling about cronyism by proving an adept if not particularly imaginative city administrator. By the time he passed away, back in the late seventies, he'd risen to the rank of city water commissioner and, within the corridors of power, become a force to be reckoned with.
Paul had been born old.MoreLess
Waterman." I'd confused her.
"That is who you asked for, isn't it, sir?" she tried again.
"No.
I mean . . . yes, it is. Tell him it's his cousin Leo Waterman calling." "One moment please, Mr. Waterman. I'll try Mr. Waterman." Two years my senior, Paul was the sole issue of the other branch of the Waterman family tree. As the only child of my Uncle Dan and Aunt Helge, Paul was my closest living relative on the paternal side of the family.
My father had, over the ye...ars, arranged a series of increasingly more responsible and thus increasingly more lucrative city jobs for his little brother Daniel. For his part, Uncle Dan, unlike my mother's brothers, had quelled the grumbling about cronyism by proving an adept if not particularly imaginative city administrator. By the time he passed away, back in the late seventies, he'd risen to the rank of city water commissioner and, within the corridors of power, become a force to be reckoned with.
Paul had been born old.MoreLess
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