Saving Alice (2005)
““Haven’t seen any of Alycia’s friends in a while,” I commented to Donna in the kitchen about six months later.
“And you won’t for a while,” she’d replied absently, drying the silverware. “She’s in her embarrassment phase.”
I considered this, and Donna eyed me cautiously.
“I suppose her friends’ parents live in big houses.”
“Stephen, please…”
I slunk to my downstairs office and, as my daughter often did, sat in the dark for hours, pondering the passage of years, listening to a collection of my f...avorite childhood oldies, the kind of prehistoric tunes that offended my daughter’s fine-tuned musical sensibilities. They never failed to bring me back to a time when the future seemed imbued with relentless possibilities.
After marrying Donna, I’d attempted—on a smaller stage—to reignite the old childhood determination, but trying harder only seemed to yield diminishing results, not to mention a catastrophic meltdown five years ago.
I was now in the midst of my third, maybe fourth, comeback.MoreLess
“And you won’t for a while,” she’d replied absently, drying the silverware. “She’s in her embarrassment phase.”
I considered this, and Donna eyed me cautiously.
“I suppose her friends’ parents live in big houses.”
“Stephen, please…”
I slunk to my downstairs office and, as my daughter often did, sat in the dark for hours, pondering the passage of years, listening to a collection of my f...avorite childhood oldies, the kind of prehistoric tunes that offended my daughter’s fine-tuned musical sensibilities. They never failed to bring me back to a time when the future seemed imbued with relentless possibilities.
After marrying Donna, I’d attempted—on a smaller stage—to reignite the old childhood determination, but trying harder only seemed to yield diminishing results, not to mention a catastrophic meltdown five years ago.
I was now in the midst of my third, maybe fourth, comeback.MoreLess
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