If, Then by Kate Hope Day

Author:Kate Hope Day
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

ROAST A TURKEY, BY WEIGHT:

Weight Cook Time (Unstuffed) Cook Time (Stuffed)

4½–7 lbs. 2–2½ hrs. 2¼–2¾ hrs.

7–9 lbs. 2½–3 hrs. 2¾–3¾ hrs.

9–18 lbs. 3–3½ hrs. 3¾–4½ hrs.

18–22 lbs. 3½–4 hrs. 4½–5 hrs.

22–24 lbs. 4–4½ hrs. 5–5½ hrs.

She pictures a middle-aged man standing, tongs in hand, at a charcoal grill out on the square stone patio. In the air the char of steaks cooking. Long-limbed teenage boys loitering around the weather-beaten basketball hoop in the driveway. Their whooping voices and the smack of the ball against the hoop’s backboard. She imagines a newly married Mrs. Kells, dressed for bed in a long pink nightgown, lying crosswise on a wide living room couch, her husband’s lap cradling her feet. They both hold books, and the stillness of the room is punctuated only by the occasional turn of a page. Then the picture transforms, and it’s her in the pink nightgown, and Shawn holding her feet. She shakes her head. What made her think of that?

Her mother’s voice tells her to stop daydreaming. She’s not here to appreciate the house, to imagine herself in it. She turns off the lights, closes the sliding door, and retrieves the keys from the kitchen counter. She’s spent nearly an hour and has accomplished next to nothing. She pulls her hood up and runs to her car.

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