A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing by T. Cooper

Author:T. Cooper [Cooper, T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: akashic books
Published: 2013-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

Patti was done with me. The operator promised the heart locket would be delivered to my home address with a gift card enclosed. I hung up the phone just as Marjorie walked into our hotel room waving two crisp hundreds in her hand.

“I won!”

She’d probably flirted up the roulette dealer. Or not. She was just charmed, that girl was.

“There’s some sandwich left if you want,” I said.

“I am hungry.”

Of course she was.

“Baby, don’t forget you need to take your heart medicine at 4:00,” I said.

“Lou, you are such a bore.” She walked over and sat on the bed next to me with a sweet little kiss on the cheek. “Nothing changes, does it?”

No, nothing does. And yet, everything does.

Marjorie. My Marjorie. She was even more stunningly lovely in her eighties than she’d been at twenty. All her delicate beautiful bones had worked themselves to the surface of thinned old-woman silk-soft skin. And her still-heliotrope-perfumed hair was silver. Truly silver. I detested how so many of our friends died their blow-dried helmets in impossible shades of black and red and brown. My own short no-fuss hair tended toward sulfured tinges of yellow, but Marjorie’s was the silver stuff angels would weave stars from—if they only could.

“Happy Valentine’s Day, darling,” she said and smiled.

I wiped a white bread crumb from her wrinkle-free polyester blouse.

“Yes, Happy Valentine’s Day.”

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