Second Hand Heart
“No, definitely this is weird. But anyway, here goes.
I started thinking that a water pump is to a car what a heart is to a body. And then I started feeling like maybe there would never be a pump. Like we were in the hospital waiting for a pump, and maybe it would just never show up.
God knows, it hadn’t been showing up so far.
And then Victor’s poor car would never live and breathe and drive down a road and see the world again. And we would still be alive, of course, but pretty well... stuck. Pretty stranded.
But then, the next day after I told Eddie about Esther and the book, there was Victor, standing in the heat waves outside the doorway of the service bays, freshly back from a parts run. And he was smiling really wide, just standing there with the sun beating down on his head, until Eddie said, “Hey, gringo, get out of the noonday sun.” Like I say, Eddie is Native American. Not Spanish.MoreLess
I started thinking that a water pump is to a car what a heart is to a body. And then I started feeling like maybe there would never be a pump. Like we were in the hospital waiting for a pump, and maybe it would just never show up.
God knows, it hadn’t been showing up so far.
And then Victor’s poor car would never live and breathe and drive down a road and see the world again. And we would still be alive, of course, but pretty well... stuck. Pretty stranded.
But then, the next day after I told Eddie about Esther and the book, there was Victor, standing in the heat waves outside the doorway of the service bays, freshly back from a parts run. And he was smiling really wide, just standing there with the sun beating down on his head, until Eddie said, “Hey, gringo, get out of the noonday sun.” Like I say, Eddie is Native American. Not Spanish.MoreLess
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