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Fracture frame glass print10/28/2023 Mommy diminished again, quietly tucking the wad of bills into her pocketbook as I pinched Shiffy just for diversion. Ice cream and pizza all Sunday, kids!”Ī quick wave, a cheery goodbye. Tatty, reaching into his pocket for his wallet. This was a man whose eyes had glazed over before we ate the main course every Friday night since we could form coherent memory. I threw a glance at the head of the table. Business or coercion, that’s how it always went. Travel plans for a man who had never gone on vacation voluntarily in his life. The nameless thing poured into my throat, flooding it with something so bitter I could neither swallow nor open my mouth. “I think it’s such a good idea! Where are you flying to first?” “Yeah, to Alaska!” Shiffy was rallying round. Slowly but surely, the neat, clean home Mommy had meticulously kept was being buried under more frippery and frappery than any human could possibly call normal. Sure, Aunt Dee would move into the home of my youth and turn it into a massive tea cozy. Sure, she’ll move into his house why should she stay in that tiny apartment she’s lived in her whole life when he has a mansion? Across the street!Įven now, thinking about it, heat flooded my cheeks - not all of it from the floral carpet marinating us in carbon dioxide.Ĭutest shidduch! The Schuster widower, how perfect! Sure, both kids married. It’s more than wonderful and we’re all walking around with goofy blissful grins, because it’s just the cutest shidduch. She’s finally engaged, after 30 years! Isn’t that wonderful. So the cute neighborhood widow whom everyone loves - and forgets to feel sorry for because she’s been alone for so long and manages her life better than anyone - made news. See, I had been doing just fine in all this ridiculousness. I could see a hand holding a crystal tumbler heard a low laugh. They had been swallowed by the massively stuffed armchairs on the other side of the dining room, legs sprawled over frills. I looked around to see if our husbands were listening, but nope. “They’re going on a trip, did you hear about that?” I was certainly not going along with Savti. “Tatty and-” I stopped, because I still called her Aunt Dee in my head. I waited until she had finished destroying the makeup around her nose. She sneezed twice, violently enough to set aquiver the teardrop crystals belonging to the chandelier hanging low over our heads. In this ridiculous hothouse, what should I have expected? I looked over at Shiffy, but she was searching for a tissue. No, “Ta” hadn’t breathed a word.Įven now, he sat silently, unwrapping a mint thin. “We’re off to Alaska next month! Didn’t Ta tell you?” ![]() Her eyes danced, eyebrows flexing upward as she beamed the smile that had drawn all the neighborhood kids to love her, me included. ![]() I turned to Aunt Dee, trying not to wince at the chair she was ensconced in. That, paired with Friday night postprandial heaviness, and I was bound to hallucinate. Frames and figurines, miniatures and ornaments and so much clutter I couldn’t or wouldn’t identify. Smothered by layers upon layers of suffocation.īrocade curtains. Possibly my brain was half addled, what with the noxious perfume produced by the roses stuffed in every corner. So wide, I almost expected a cat to appear. Ordering fractures on the website is simple….My father is newly, blissfully remarried- and I can’t stand it.Have a lot of photos on Instagram? The Square 5″x 5″size is perfect- and it's only $15. ![]()
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