The Orange Blossom Special
“That was Charlie’s gift, plucking a filament of a thought out of the air. The paradox was that when it came to himself he could be just the opposite. “I swear, sometimes you’re as thick as a big fat slab of pork,” Victoria had said to him the day after he told her he was going into the army.
All morning she had been screaming at him. “You’re leaving me high and dry, trapped in this house with Reggie and Ella. Do you have any idea what position that puts me in? I know it’s hard to tell from ...looking at me, but I AM NOT A FRIGGIN’ SOCIAL WORKER. People say, ‘Oh, that Charlie Landy, he’s so kind, he’s so empathetic.’ He is to everyone but his own mother! I know what you are. You are a selfish, hypocritical egomaniac. That’s what you are!” Then she said the thing about the slab of pork. “If your father were alive today, you wouldn’t be doing this to me.”
“If my father were alive today,” he answered sadly, “I would have been gone long ago.”MoreLess
All morning she had been screaming at him. “You’re leaving me high and dry, trapped in this house with Reggie and Ella. Do you have any idea what position that puts me in? I know it’s hard to tell from ...looking at me, but I AM NOT A FRIGGIN’ SOCIAL WORKER. People say, ‘Oh, that Charlie Landy, he’s so kind, he’s so empathetic.’ He is to everyone but his own mother! I know what you are. You are a selfish, hypocritical egomaniac. That’s what you are!” Then she said the thing about the slab of pork. “If your father were alive today, you wouldn’t be doing this to me.”
“If my father were alive today,” he answered sadly, “I would have been gone long ago.”MoreLess
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