The Housekeeper: Love, Death, and Prizefighting by Samman Josh

Author:Samman, Josh [Samman, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

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"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

-J. D. Salinger

“Why you so good to me?” There was thick twang on the other end of the phone as I answered. It was a quote from Forrest Gump.

Isabel had several voice impersonations that she did. She could replicate any of our friends’ accents on a dime, and had other go-tos that she liked. She could be the Queen of England, or her friend Shaquita from jail. The one she was talking to me in today was Jenny, the female heroine from Forrest Gump.

The finale of TUF was nearing. We were the first season to have every cast member receive a UFC contract, and we’d been told to get ready to fight, though we didn’t yet know who we’d be facing. Isabel didn’t have money to buy a plane ticket, and I knew she wasn’t going to ask me to get her one. She was still headstrong, trying to be independent.

I knew there was no way I wasn’t having Isabel there, although she didn’t know it yet. I didn’t ask if she wanted to come, I didn’t ask when she could leave, I just bought the tickets and sent them to her, including money to buy new clothes with. Her Jenny impression was the response when she’d received it.

In the package was another gift, a pair of movies; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Fountain. Eternal Sunshine was one of Jim Carrey’s serious films, in which a couple undergo a procedure to remove painful memories of each other. In the film the procedure is botched and all their memories are irreversibly removed. Through their loss they still manage to find themselves at the end of the movie, reunited; a “what is meant to be will be” story. Truth be told, if I were given the option to erase some of my memories of Isabel, I would have, plenty of them. But there we were, together in the end.

The Fountain was a film directed by Darren Aronofsky and composed by Clint Mansell, both of whom I was fans of. In it, three stories over separate timelines intertwine into one, all telling the same tale of a man trying to immortalize the woman he loves.

The first timeline portrays the hero, a Spanish conquistador, searching for the Fountain of Youth so that his queen can live forever. The scene opens on a piece of jewelry made from the queen’s hair, before the Spaniard is sent on his mission. He goes to travel across the world to Mayan ritual grounds, where he fights tribes of men before climbing the final tower, to wage his ultimate battle. In the end, he finds the fountain he’s in search of nestled right below the Tree of Life.

The second story portrays a modern age doctor searching for the cure for his wife’s terminal illness. During his long nights at the lab, his wife pens a book, before finally telling him that he has to finish it, moments before she passes away.

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