Moonlight Mile
“Uncle Oscar patted his belly. “Still got a little room left in here, I think.”
“If not, he’ll make room!” Nina’s cousin DeeDee barked out a laugh and elbowed her longtime boyfriend, Tim, who was sitting beside her, shoveling down his second helping of Gramma Rose’s potato salad.
Nina grinned and grabbed the dish between her and her grandmother, passing it across the table to her uncle. It was Friday night, and this week the family dinner was at Aunt Toni and Uncle Elijah’s place, a comf...ortable but rather small shotgun house in Bayou St. John. It was a full house that week, which meant about twenty members of Nina’s father’s family were crowded around two tables in the front room, including Nina’s four aunts and uncles, all six of her first cousins, and various spouses and significant others. Most of the little kids—Nina’s young second cousins, who numbered nine so far, with one more on the way soon from Cousin Jeremy and his wife—were eating in front of the TV in the bedroom, though baby Ella was on Grandpa Jack’s lap while her mother, Nina’s cousin Charlotte, took a break from feeding her.MoreLess
“If not, he’ll make room!” Nina’s cousin DeeDee barked out a laugh and elbowed her longtime boyfriend, Tim, who was sitting beside her, shoveling down his second helping of Gramma Rose’s potato salad.
Nina grinned and grabbed the dish between her and her grandmother, passing it across the table to her uncle. It was Friday night, and this week the family dinner was at Aunt Toni and Uncle Elijah’s place, a comf...ortable but rather small shotgun house in Bayou St. John. It was a full house that week, which meant about twenty members of Nina’s father’s family were crowded around two tables in the front room, including Nina’s four aunts and uncles, all six of her first cousins, and various spouses and significant others. Most of the little kids—Nina’s young second cousins, who numbered nine so far, with one more on the way soon from Cousin Jeremy and his wife—were eating in front of the TV in the bedroom, though baby Ella was on Grandpa Jack’s lap while her mother, Nina’s cousin Charlotte, took a break from feeding her.MoreLess
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