Isle of Palms
“There are certain events burned into your memories like streaming video; for example, the day men landed on the moon and the landing of Grandmother Violet. I would never forget the precise moment she touched down. I was on the front porch lollygagging away the day in our ancient creaking swing. My intellectual occupation at the time was chipping away layers of paint with my fingernail. I was very involved in my own funk.
Young as I was at the time, I recognized and hated the much secreted and h...eavily denied fact that Momma had only the most minimal affection for me and Daddy. You wouldn’t call it love. Worse, she couldn’t have helped it. I had arrived at the conclusion that she just plain hated being married and having a child. She must have felt that way, because she never showed much enthusiasm for anything we ever did. It wasn’t like I was so horrible that I failed to make her love me. Or Daddy either. There just wasn’t any love to get. Like Daddy used to say about oranges in July, “no juice.”MoreLess
Young as I was at the time, I recognized and hated the much secreted and h...eavily denied fact that Momma had only the most minimal affection for me and Daddy. You wouldn’t call it love. Worse, she couldn’t have helped it. I had arrived at the conclusion that she just plain hated being married and having a child. She must have felt that way, because she never showed much enthusiasm for anything we ever did. It wasn’t like I was so horrible that I failed to make her love me. Or Daddy either. There just wasn’t any love to get. Like Daddy used to say about oranges in July, “no juice.”MoreLess
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