Sweet Thunder (2013)
“I had led what I thought was an eventful life before coming to this address, but what an amount more had been squeezed in between that first knock on the blue-painted door and mine now.
“Yes?” Grace’s pleasant lilt came first as she answered the door. That immediately changed to “Oh, no, you don’t,” as soon as she saw it was me, along with the taxi driver who was laboring up the sidewalk with the trunk. “You can’t come crawling back here with all your belongings and think you can kiss and m...ake up and everything will be like it was before.” Pushing me aside, she called to the driver struggling with his load. “Put that back in the taxi.”
“Grace, that’s not my trunk, it’s our trunk. From our trip. The railroad evidently ran out of places to sidetrack it.”
“Why didn’t you say so.” She called to the taxi driver again. “Leave it and take him with you.”
“But I need my things from it.”MoreLess
“Yes?” Grace’s pleasant lilt came first as she answered the door. That immediately changed to “Oh, no, you don’t,” as soon as she saw it was me, along with the taxi driver who was laboring up the sidewalk with the trunk. “You can’t come crawling back here with all your belongings and think you can kiss and m...ake up and everything will be like it was before.” Pushing me aside, she called to the driver struggling with his load. “Put that back in the taxi.”
“Grace, that’s not my trunk, it’s our trunk. From our trip. The railroad evidently ran out of places to sidetrack it.”
“Why didn’t you say so.” She called to the taxi driver again. “Leave it and take him with you.”
“But I need my things from it.”MoreLess
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