DownTown by Anne Rivers Siddons

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons [Siddons, Anne Rivers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-27T12:26:22+00:00

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“What a long way you’ve come,” I whispered to the girl

in the mirror, and she swam to the surface and grimaced

back at me. I washed my face and hands and brushed my

hair and straightened Teddy’s madras wrap skirt and blouse

and ran lightly and in dread down the stairs where Brad

waited to take me to his grandmother.

The two old women waited for us on a narrow, glassed-

in porch that ran alongside the house, facing the courtyard

on one end and the lawn and sea on the other. They sat on

opposite ends of a flowered rattan sofa, both so bent and

small that their feet scarcely touched the floor. I thought of

children sitting gingerly on grown-up furniture. A glass and

rattan table before them held a pitcher of what looked to be

orange juice and a tray of glasses, and Sarelle was just uncov-

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