#AMREADING
M.O. Walsh, My Sunshine Away: Keep
your fantasies locked up.
The
man who hurt your mother and left your family gives you relationship advice:
Was this a man who
didn’t understand irony? Was this a man so devoid of perspective, so unaware of
the craters he’s left in his wake, so oblivious to the fact that I knew what
he’d done, that he thought his comments were acceptable?
A
clarification:
What are you saying,
dad? A real man only hurts women by accident?
Bingo, he said.
I felt some nameless
air clear between us. But this was as far as we got.
Understanding
adults.
For every adult you
look up to in life, there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of
ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from meeting.
First
love. What do you want from her?
Maybe she could tell
me something funny.
And then what? he
said. I mean that’s just a start. What comes next?
Then maybe she could
tell me something sad.
Ouch, he said. You’ve
got it bad.
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