One Lonely Degree (2009)
One Lonely Degree
“My sixty-eight-year-old grandmother has a heart of gold. That’s what everyone says about her. She never pries into other people’s business or offers unwanted advice, and she has the even kind of voice that makes you want to trust her, especially over a long-distance line. I know because I almost confessed an awful secret to her four months ago. I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest or that my lungs would collapse. I thought I was standing at a point where everything would change....
Then another phone call came through on call waiting—some woman with a heavy Italian accent wanting me to take a nutrition survey. I was halfway through the thing, in a kind of daze, when I got a call from Gran, wondering why I’d deserted her on the other line.
This is the kind of thing that happens to me a lot, even with the iron pills. But the truth is, I didn’t entirely forget about Gran on the phone; I changed my mind and couldn’t go through with what I was about to say. Now whenever she calls, I make sure to get her talking about her friend Veronica’s Alzheimer’s or her other two grandchildren, who live lots closer to her than we do.MoreLess
Then another phone call came through on call waiting—some woman with a heavy Italian accent wanting me to take a nutrition survey. I was halfway through the thing, in a kind of daze, when I got a call from Gran, wondering why I’d deserted her on the other line.
This is the kind of thing that happens to me a lot, even with the iron pills. But the truth is, I didn’t entirely forget about Gran on the phone; I changed my mind and couldn’t go through with what I was about to say. Now whenever she calls, I make sure to get her talking about her friend Veronica’s Alzheimer’s or her other two grandchildren, who live lots closer to her than we do.MoreLess
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