Evergreen (1978)
“Why? Why? And no answer. Nothing anymore. Never. It was too much effort to eat, too exhausting to dress or go down to the market, a burden to answer the telephone.
Then one morning there came to Anna a stirring of desire to feel again. And she took out a sheaf of letters, tied together, that had arrived from Europe during the terrible time when Maury had been struck down. Voices called out of the dark: her brothers’ (Eli and Dan, snub-nosed, freckled boys in their mother’s kitchen and suddenly,... in Vienna, as old as their father had been when he died); Liesel’s (Eli’s fair, silvery little girl); the unknown voice of Theo, the little girl’s husband.
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Vienna, March 7, 1938 Dearest Uncle Joseph and Aunt Anna, Now that I am actually sitting down to write you a letter I feel ashamed and must begin by apologizing for not having written before, except for the note in which I thanked you for the beautiful wedding gift that you sent to Theo and me. I suppose my only excuse for not having written in all these years, and not a very good one, is that Papa writes to you, and it seemed that he was really writing for all of us.MoreLess
Then one morning there came to Anna a stirring of desire to feel again. And she took out a sheaf of letters, tied together, that had arrived from Europe during the terrible time when Maury had been struck down. Voices called out of the dark: her brothers’ (Eli and Dan, snub-nosed, freckled boys in their mother’s kitchen and suddenly,... in Vienna, as old as their father had been when he died); Liesel’s (Eli’s fair, silvery little girl); the unknown voice of Theo, the little girl’s husband.
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Vienna, March 7, 1938 Dearest Uncle Joseph and Aunt Anna, Now that I am actually sitting down to write you a letter I feel ashamed and must begin by apologizing for not having written before, except for the note in which I thanked you for the beautiful wedding gift that you sent to Theo and me. I suppose my only excuse for not having written in all these years, and not a very good one, is that Papa writes to you, and it seemed that he was really writing for all of us.MoreLess
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