Haunted Houses
“This time Edith thought she’d rent the room to a boy. For a change. Edith fought the idea that she, too, had been left behind, that Emily in her youth could just leave, almost heartlessly, her parents, Christine, whether or not the relationship was good for her. Could she have just left, announced to her children, Goodbye, this is it, I’m going to find out who I am or whatever people left for. It seemed like the plot for a situation comedy in which the mother would in the end be seen to have be...en only dreaming. And the feelings didn’t last, because Edith hated sadness, and next to her husband’s death, she could stand anything. Though sometimes, when the air smelled a certain way, suddenly she was in a different place, a street near her high school, and someone calling her name, Edith, from a distance, and maybe it was a friend, a boyfriend or her mother, long dead. Dead so long that saying it was like a date learned in history class. Only if she became the person she was when her mother was alive, if she conjured her up and became a teenager again, then Edith could remember the loss and it was palpable.MoreLess
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