Kissing Cousins: a Memory
“Over the phone afterward we laughed at that wishful implication and sometimes she would say, “You have to come pick up your shoes.” We both knew I wouldn’t come again. She because she was wise in the way of families, whose members at the crucial moment will often spare themselves pain—even because they do love.
I told myself something even harsher: that the habit of the recorder, once a life is recognized as perfectly rounded, is to bow out.
At times during the next year I would hear of her gen...ealogical tussles with a researcher who had misspelled Boettigheimer or incorrectly placed her grandfather, Daniel Hart Pyle; once I sent her notice of a Dutch reference book, eighteenth century, edited by a Pyle, that I had come across at the Newberry Library. Now and then she repeated her resentments at Aaron’s family—the old debt, the silence of the niece at whose marriage she and Nita had ceded those early family artifacts. And once she sent me some fragments of stories that Nita had written—one in particular on an encounter they had both witnessed when young, between Solly’s other woman and Beck, who had routed her from the house.MoreLess
I told myself something even harsher: that the habit of the recorder, once a life is recognized as perfectly rounded, is to bow out.
At times during the next year I would hear of her gen...ealogical tussles with a researcher who had misspelled Boettigheimer or incorrectly placed her grandfather, Daniel Hart Pyle; once I sent her notice of a Dutch reference book, eighteenth century, edited by a Pyle, that I had come across at the Newberry Library. Now and then she repeated her resentments at Aaron’s family—the old debt, the silence of the niece at whose marriage she and Nita had ceded those early family artifacts. And once she sent me some fragments of stories that Nita had written—one in particular on an encounter they had both witnessed when young, between Solly’s other woman and Beck, who had routed her from the house.MoreLess
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