........The marriage of her parents
Frank and Anna had been marred by the sense of mission that her father felt in
regard to keeping his siblings close and in frequent communication. Her
father’s siblings had also grown apart like in Rob’s family, but theirs was a
bitter and endless drama that eventually became a cold war. It had become his
life’s purpose to reunite them, but he never really understood or accepted that
he could not achieve this on his own. It would have required enormous good will
from the six of them--three brothers: Frank, Eugene, and John, and three
sisters: Colette, Maria, and Loretta--to accomplish that. They argued with
each other from the early days in her parents’ marriage and prior to their
marriage. The pattern was always the same-- argue over trivial things (to
others but not to them), then slam the doors shut and close their hearts indefinitely
to the very people with whom they had grown up, open up a bit again, perhaps on
a whim, and then slam doors shut again for even longer. Eventually the doors
slammed shut for good.......
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
An excerpt from Fading Away, a short story I'm writing
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