So Long by Lucia Berlin

Author:Lucia Berlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Sparrow Books
Published: 2016-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Dear Conchi,

…I have been out several times with Joe Sanchez. He gets free tickets to events so he’ll do stories on them. I like him because he never says things just because they are the right thing to say. It’s very cool to like Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician, but in his review Joe called him a wimp. People got really mad. And Billy Graham. Hard to explain to you, being Catholic, what an Evangelist is. He talks, hollers, about God and sin and tries to get people to turn their lives over to Jesus. Everybody I know thinks the guy is crazy, money hungry and hopelessly corny. The column Joe wrote was about the man’s skill and power. It turned into a column about faith.

We don’t go to student hang-outs afterwards but to little restaurants in the South Valley or to Mexican bars or cowboy bars. It’s like being in another country. We drive up into the mountains or out into the desert, walk or climb for miles. He doesn’t try to “make out” (atracar) like all the other boys do, relentlessly, here. When he says goodbye he just touches my cheek. Once he kissed my hair.

He doesn’t talk about things, or events or books. He reminds me of my uncle John. He tells stories, about his brothers, or his grandfather, or geisha girls in Japan.

I like him because he talks to everybody. He really wants to know what everyone is up to.

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