The book of Broken Hearts
“I said.
“Too acidic.” Mari sloshed a bunch of milk into Papi’s morning brew. “With all the meds, his stomach is more sensitive.”
How do I not know that?
Mari set the mug on the kitchen table with Papi’s new breakfast staples: lumpy oatmeal, a small bowl of applesauce, a hard-boiled egg, and a Sudoku book. His pills were there too—same ones I’d been giving him, but she had them arranged in a neat little row, smallest to largest.
“Order and repetition are important,” she said when I raised my eye...brows at the spread.
My shoulders tensed, and I had to remind myself that this was Mari’s way—swooping in, upending, reestablishing the rules.
Still, not everything needed to be reestablished. Maybe I messed up about the coffee. Maybe I let Papi cheat too easily at Scrabble, watch a little too much television when he should’ve been puzzling out the crosswords to sharpen his brain. But Mari had to see that I was good for him, that the motorcycle project and our western marathons made him happy.MoreLess
“Too acidic.” Mari sloshed a bunch of milk into Papi’s morning brew. “With all the meds, his stomach is more sensitive.”
How do I not know that?
Mari set the mug on the kitchen table with Papi’s new breakfast staples: lumpy oatmeal, a small bowl of applesauce, a hard-boiled egg, and a Sudoku book. His pills were there too—same ones I’d been giving him, but she had them arranged in a neat little row, smallest to largest.
“Order and repetition are important,” she said when I raised my eye...brows at the spread.
My shoulders tensed, and I had to remind myself that this was Mari’s way—swooping in, upending, reestablishing the rules.
Still, not everything needed to be reestablished. Maybe I messed up about the coffee. Maybe I let Papi cheat too easily at Scrabble, watch a little too much television when he should’ve been puzzling out the crosswords to sharpen his brain. But Mari had to see that I was good for him, that the motorcycle project and our western marathons made him happy.MoreLess
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