Maggie Brown & Others by Peter Orner

Author:Peter Orner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

Everybody was waiting to see if Pauline would show up for the funeral, and she did, with a small boy in tow. She wore a brown business suit and flat shoes. But she couldn’t hide that she was even more beautiful now, somehow. Maybe because I wasn’t quite a kid anymore. When she took off her glasses, her hazel eyes were wet. She wasn’t crying; it was as if she were storing up some tears for later. Wishful thinking (we pretended not to notice the ring), but we couldn’t help but believe, if only for a moment, that the boy might be Erwin’s son. A lost son we hadn’t known was lost. The math didn’t work out at all. The child was only four; she’d been gone at least a decade by then. Pauline hugged everyone—brief, efficient hugs—but they weren’t without what we believed to be a genuine squeeze of affection. The little boy was polite and shy and shook hands with everybody. The two of them didn’t come back to my grandparents’ house for cold cuts.

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