The Journey Back
“Solemnly I nodded.
Yes. But she’d get over it. I’d better not say that though. “What I haven’t gone through! I often think how is it possible for one person to have suffered so much. Here I am in a strange house with people I hardly know. With Nel around, I didn’t mind. But without her …” I stared out the window. Maybe we could do something special today. Not a celebration-Of course not. But something. What? Startled I looked back at Mother. Had that to do with her suffering, too? What she had ...just said? That I had come to her knowing practically nothing? It must have.
She looked so serious. “I even said to your father, “So many people took care of her and not one of them bothered to teach her anything. The result is that I have a lot of hard work ahead of me.”
You don’t even know how to make a bed properly.” No? Dientje had always admired the way I did it. “What that Annie can’t do with a bed,” she used to say. “You even have trouble drawing open the drapes, so they hang right.”MoreLess
Yes. But she’d get over it. I’d better not say that though. “What I haven’t gone through! I often think how is it possible for one person to have suffered so much. Here I am in a strange house with people I hardly know. With Nel around, I didn’t mind. But without her …” I stared out the window. Maybe we could do something special today. Not a celebration-Of course not. But something. What? Startled I looked back at Mother. Had that to do with her suffering, too? What she had ...just said? That I had come to her knowing practically nothing? It must have.
She looked so serious. “I even said to your father, “So many people took care of her and not one of them bothered to teach her anything. The result is that I have a lot of hard work ahead of me.”
You don’t even know how to make a bed properly.” No? Dientje had always admired the way I did it. “What that Annie can’t do with a bed,” she used to say. “You even have trouble drawing open the drapes, so they hang right.”MoreLess
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