Follow Me into the Dark by Felicia C. Sullivan

Author:Felicia C. Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781558614109
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2016-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

FLAMMABLE WOMEN

1968–1974

A WEEK LATER I see Tim through glass. He’s on a bus, waving, and it takes everything in me not to shout, “Take me with you.” Before he boards he presses a folded piece of paper into my hand and says, “This isn’t goodbye. This is I’ll see you soon.” He’s leaving for California to live with his crazy aunt Minnie, who registers him in a school that allows him to play the saxophone as loud as he wants to. If you ask me to remember the evening Minnie came for dinner and the aftermath, what remains is my mother whispering in my ear that grief will undo you. It will make you drive to someone’s house and unload lies, as if the unburdening will relieve them of their grief. That night my grandfather found comfort in a bottle of scotch and my mother invited me to pray for Minnie, even though we were a family who lied about our devotion. We were Christians on paper, and I remember a few Sundays praying for a woman who lost her sister at the Pavilion.

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