Someone Like Summer (2007)
“I came to give you some thing and to see your father.”
“I’m so glad you’re here!”
“I never should have left the way I did.”
He had on carpenter jeans and an old blue plaid seersucker shirt. The sleeves were so short, his muscles showed.
There were tears behind his eyes and he shook his head. “Oh, Anna, I make apologies for how I talked to you last. I took out on you my great anger with myself for what I had done. I feel you never see me in a good way. You never see me smart or going places, bec...oming someone you can respect. I am less than boys you are used to, and—”
I put my hand to his lips to hush him. “You are more to me, not less. Don’t ever think that way, Esteban. I think only good about you. Don’t you know how I feel about you?”
“But I want you to be proud of me and I don’t see how that can happen. Here in this country I will always be a number zero. Your brother has college and now will be this animal doctor.”
“Shhhh. Listen to yourself. Where is any mention of how brave you are to be in a foreign country, working to keep your family together?MoreLess
“I’m so glad you’re here!”
“I never should have left the way I did.”
He had on carpenter jeans and an old blue plaid seersucker shirt. The sleeves were so short, his muscles showed.
There were tears behind his eyes and he shook his head. “Oh, Anna, I make apologies for how I talked to you last. I took out on you my great anger with myself for what I had done. I feel you never see me in a good way. You never see me smart or going places, bec...oming someone you can respect. I am less than boys you are used to, and—”
I put my hand to his lips to hush him. “You are more to me, not less. Don’t ever think that way, Esteban. I think only good about you. Don’t you know how I feel about you?”
“But I want you to be proud of me and I don’t see how that can happen. Here in this country I will always be a number zero. Your brother has college and now will be this animal doctor.”
“Shhhh. Listen to yourself. Where is any mention of how brave you are to be in a foreign country, working to keep your family together?MoreLess
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