Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

Author:Jill A. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Recuperating

WE WATCH MOVIES. Play Scrabble. Then Bogle. The list of games we can play without getting into a standoff continues to dwindle. We seek other forms of tame amusement.

We shop for the world’s most beautiful note cards at Kate’s Paperie. We buy an assortment of colored pens and carefully match the ink to the envelopes. Then we write over-the-top thank-yous as both chore and entertainment. “Your amazingly fragrant and generous gift of flowers arrived at the perfect juncture…not only was the bouquet splendid and cheerful, the vase was beyond stunning! An heirloom in the making!”

Mom waits on her davenport, watching a movie, while I wait in line at the post office for forty-five minutes to buy an assortment of unique and limited stamps.

My mother counts her towels. She likes perfect sets of six or eight. If she has only seven towels, she donates them to charity and starts all over again with a new set.

“Why not buy one to match the others?” I ask.

“They won’t match. All of that washing fades them,” Mom says.

“They’re white,” I say.

“They discolor with time, and the manufacturer changes their decorative weave on purpose so new towels don’t match old towels,” Mom says. Another conspiracy revealed.

“What are you going to do when Dr. Kealy tells you that the tissue analysis has come back and everything is great, and that the cancer is really gone?” I ask.

“I can’t think about that yet,” Mom says.

That’s what I thought.

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