Catch Me When I Fall
“We started a family right away and last year, with some help from Lawrence’s parents, we bought our own farm a few kilometres west of Lacombe. While I’d been away, my old friend Kristy had moved to Red Deer, where she gave manicures in a day spa.
I’d seen her briefly three Christmases before at the morning service. She had a boyfriend, Joseph Dove, with her, who looked as out of place in the sanctuary as our minister does at the annual rodeo. Joseph was a thin chain-smoker with a handsome face and nervous fingers. He won’t stay with you, I wanted to tell Kristy. She followed him to Edmonton and two years later they had a son.
When I was a kid I used to love sleeping over at Kristy’s house. Her pesky sisters, the clutter, the noise. Setting the kitchen table with six of everything. “Forks on the left,” said Mrs. Meijer. She sat down last, in the chair nearest the stove. Mr. Meijer presided over meals from the head of the table, his daughters and me his courtiers.
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