Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found by Allegra Huston

Author:Allegra Huston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781416551584
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

At night, Cici and I would creep outside like criminals under cover of dark, drop a hose into the septic tank that lay underneath the lawn, and siphon the sewage over the side of the hill. “The nighttime drools,” she called them. The toilets had taken to backing up and she couldn’t afford the constant visits from Walt, the Reddi-Rooter man. Soon we had to stop, though, because of the smell, and Walt came back. In a new truck.

“Walt!” As usual, she was wearing a floaty top and a bikini bottom. Her legs were long and lean from riding, polished by the sun. “What happened to Old Red?”

Walt’s face was weathered, as if it was carved out of wood. “Well, Miz Huston, I done cut some holes in her an’ my wife ’n I’re usin’ her for an RV.”

Cici let out a screech. “Walt! You’re not!” Her toes scrunched up the grass as if she couldn’t bear the delight. She looked at me to see if I believed him.

I didn’t, and I didn’t think she did either. But she held the possibility, like some exotic feathered creature that she didn’t want to let go of just yet. Sturdy, rational me: I wanted to feel the pleasure of the forbidden like that.

Walt held it too. I wondered if that was just how long it took for his features to crack apart and rearrange themselves into a smile.

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