Suitable Precautions (2011)
Suitable Precautions
“He was happy to reel it off, starting with the part where Genevieve, his first mother, collapsed on the kitchen floor with a blood clot in her lung. “It only took a second or two for her to die,” he said, slowly lowering his hand in a side-to-side motion as though his mother had been a piece of windblown paper. “She probably didn’t even feel it.” Nate was a baby when it happened, and he had almost cried himself to death by the time the landlord unlocked the apartment door. His father—our father...—lived with my mother by then. The day Genevieve died, my mother was busy giving birth. “But don’t feel bad, Elaine,” Nate said to me. “You almost died, too. You were early.”
It seemed obvious to us that Genevieve’s death was a lot better than our father’s. It was definitely faster and there were no hospitals or operations, and Genevieve didn’t have to lose her hair or spend a lot of time throwing up into stainless steel bowls. My mother agreed with us on principle, she said, catching our eyes in the rear-view mirror, but either way it wasn’t appropriate to make a sport out of it.MoreLess
It seemed obvious to us that Genevieve’s death was a lot better than our father’s. It was definitely faster and there were no hospitals or operations, and Genevieve didn’t have to lose her hair or spend a lot of time throwing up into stainless steel bowls. My mother agreed with us on principle, she said, catching our eyes in the rear-view mirror, but either way it wasn’t appropriate to make a sport out of it.MoreLess
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