Subway Love (2014)
“It was just after her parents’ split, after her mom moved the three of them to Woodstock. Richard Nixon was president of the United States, and Apollo 9 launched the first lunar module. They made everyone in school crowd into the library to watch the redocking on closed-circuit TV that afternoon.
Laura’s mom had rented a normal-looking, average Brady Bunch ranch house on a dirt road that ran off from the very top of a horseshoe street a few miles from town. The mailman didn’t drive up the dirt ...road, so four plain mailboxes had been set up on a wooden plank at the top of the street’s curve, plus one that was wildly psychedelic.
Painting that mailbox had been Philip’s idea. Philip was Laura’s mother’s first boyfriend after the divorce. In hindsight, which is of course twenty-twenty, Laura wished she had liked Philip more. She didn’t dislike him, but the whole thing was so weird, and it seemed to have happened so quickly. One year her mom was sitting, her hair curlers covered with a plastic dryer cap attached by a hose to a roaring box of hot air, watching Jack LaLanne on television, and the next she was outside in overalls and a tank top, painting yin/yang symbols on their new mailbox while her blond long-haired boyfriend rubbed her shoulders.MoreLess
Laura’s mom had rented a normal-looking, average Brady Bunch ranch house on a dirt road that ran off from the very top of a horseshoe street a few miles from town. The mailman didn’t drive up the dirt ...road, so four plain mailboxes had been set up on a wooden plank at the top of the street’s curve, plus one that was wildly psychedelic.
Painting that mailbox had been Philip’s idea. Philip was Laura’s mother’s first boyfriend after the divorce. In hindsight, which is of course twenty-twenty, Laura wished she had liked Philip more. She didn’t dislike him, but the whole thing was so weird, and it seemed to have happened so quickly. One year her mom was sitting, her hair curlers covered with a plastic dryer cap attached by a hose to a roaring box of hot air, watching Jack LaLanne on television, and the next she was outside in overalls and a tank top, painting yin/yang symbols on their new mailbox while her blond long-haired boyfriend rubbed her shoulders.MoreLess
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