And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark

Author:Kathi Kamen Goldmark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2002-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

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14

ARTIE LEFT LATE THE NEXT MORNING WITH A LOT TO think about. He told Hoagy that he’d never expected this simple errand to ram him headfirst into so many ghosts, never mind memories of a summer weekend in 1959 and a certain bright-eyed redhead. Why did seeing her again make him feel so old and sad? Hoagy couldn’t come up with an answer to that, but was able to help him master a tricky chord progression, which he figured was almost as good.

Aunt Perle had a lot to think about, too, because the conditions of Miss Eustace’s will required that she take up full-time residence in the Sunset District house and transform the picturesque cottages into a center for alternative healing. It was a life-long dream, but would mean changing her entire life—giving up New York as well as Lake County and her new position as the self-appointed boss of my pregnancy. She’d never been especially driven by money, and wasn’t sure what to do. Artie told her she could take her time; he wasn’t in any hurry for an answer. Left unsaid was the fact that Perle’s indecision would give him plenty of excuses to come visit.

Allie looked wistful as she walked Artie to his car and said good-bye. For the rest of the day she was so distracted that she didn’t even notice when Perle threw all the holiday leftovers down the garbage disposal. Monica hitched a ride to the airport with the Zydeco musicians a few hours later, leaving us in a poof of perfume and boa feathers, with big lipstick smudges on our cheeks and the astonishing news that I had potential as a stripper and was welcome to come work for her once I got my figure back.

That left Jamee. She pulled Greg aside for a serious talk in which she informed him that their brief affair in Nashville had been nothing more than a “road thing.” She was so sorry, but she’d discovered she had strong feelings for someone else: drummer-turned-bouncer Pete Rawley. He was as surprised to hear the news as we were, but he didn’t really mind.

THE THING ABOUT FAME AND FORTUNE IS THERE’S NO guarantee they’ll kick in at the same time. I was getting famous all right, but the income from royalties would not roll in for a while, and that was assuming Unicorn Entertainment didn’t subscribe to the various rock-and-roll methods of creative accounting that can prevent artists from ever seeing a penny. But everyone in town suddenly expected me to have loads of cash, and whenever I went out, I found myself spending more than a comfortable amount so that no one could accuse me of being cheap or greedy. I was mystified by the whole financial process and secretly afraid that when my ship finally did come in, I’d be at the airport.

Perle was still trying to make up her mind about the inheritance, and Allie was trying to work out a reasonable agreement with Dad that

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