Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan

Author:Han Nolan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Chapter 14

THAT SUMMER, Gigi went to Greece with Mr. Eugene Wadell and married him, standing in the ruins of an ancient cathedral near the Sanctuary of Asklepios. I didn’t know she had gone until Aunt Casey handed me a letter from her, saying how she guessed Gigi had discovered Mr. Eugene Wadell’s one good trait: He had a lot of money.

I took the letter to my room and read it with my back to the wig heads.

Miracle,

It’s ridiculous that Casey didn’t tell you all this about me going to Greece and getting married. By the time you get this letter we’ll have been here forever, and I’ll be an old married lady, but Casey, the psychologist, insisted I tell you myself, so now you know. We got married in these ancient ruins under some lovely pine trees, at least I think they were pine. The whole place is a sanctuary to the Greek god-physician Asklepios, and way back when, patients would sleep in the building called the abaton where the god would visit them in their dreams and miraculously cure them. It’s very exciting! Some of the stories of the miracles and magic cures were carved into the stones here. Well, Eugene and I held a séance and contacted the ancient god and he has given us the healing powers. I have been visited by him several times in my dreams. When we get back to the States (that’s how they say it here when you’re talking about going home), we’re going to have our own sanctuary done up like the pictures of the one here. Not the Gymnasium, or some of the other buildings, but we’ll have healing baths and the abaton where you sleep and receive the healing visitations. So, how about that? How about your old Gigi getting married?

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