About to open the refrigerator, my father stopped in mid-gesture then slowly turned to face me.
"What did you say?"
I knew instantly I had made a mistake. A big one. But a year of talking my way out of consequences for missing freshman homework assignments had taught me to think fast on my feet. I knew what I had to do.
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My parents lived in Greenwich Village when I was born, but moved to Queens when I was still very young. They chose an apartment in Woodside ... -
1952, age 9: Newly motherless and too young to fully appreciate the effort it must have taken my dad to have a tree and gifts that year, I s...
Aackk, the suspense! Hurry up January 20th...
ReplyDelete"I didn't say anything! You've been listening to fake news!" (For Helen, who can't stand the suspense.)
ReplyDeleteSo funny!
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