Chestnut Street (2014)
“Every year she did this, and often went up real close to listen to what they were saying.
“I think he’d like this one—there’s a lovely poem,” a girl might say.
“He doesn’t ever read the verse,” her sister would reply.
Or she might see women in their sixties buying them. Was this to send to an old man far away in a nursing home? Or for their own husbands, maybe? She had never bought a Father’s Day card because she never had a father. Well, she had, of course, twenty-five years back. But he had n...ot been interested enough to want to know anything at all about her. She had long stopped asking her mother.
It was only a question that made Sara, her mother, sad.
“He never fell out with you, Lisa, he never saw you; it was me he fell out with.”
Over the years Lisa had learned that he had been a student, and his family was wealthy, and ambitious for him. They would not have wanted him to have married Sara, a seventeen-year-old girl from Chestnut Street who worked in a factory.MoreLess
“I think he’d like this one—there’s a lovely poem,” a girl might say.
“He doesn’t ever read the verse,” her sister would reply.
Or she might see women in their sixties buying them. Was this to send to an old man far away in a nursing home? Or for their own husbands, maybe? She had never bought a Father’s Day card because she never had a father. Well, she had, of course, twenty-five years back. But he had n...ot been interested enough to want to know anything at all about her. She had long stopped asking her mother.
It was only a question that made Sara, her mother, sad.
“He never fell out with you, Lisa, he never saw you; it was me he fell out with.”
Over the years Lisa had learned that he had been a student, and his family was wealthy, and ambitious for him. They would not have wanted him to have married Sara, a seventeen-year-old girl from Chestnut Street who worked in a factory.MoreLess
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