The Pittsburgh Anthology by Eric Boyd

Author:Eric Boyd [Boyd, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9859441-9-3
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

February 2012

At a Rite Aid near Hampton, Jane is arrested and charged with shoplifting, possession of a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia and child endangerment.

Jane pleads to misdemeanor possession of prescription drugs. I don’t find out about the charges until the following summer.

I enroll Gracie in Kindergarten at a magnet school in the city.

August 2012

A month before the start of the school year, Jane tells me she signed Gracie up for another year of preschool in Shaler. She claims I never told her about kindergarten.

I have to go to court just to get my five-year-old daughter into school.

The judge rules Gracie will go to kindergarten in the city. A new custody schedule is set: a 50/50 split.

When Gracie stays with me, we go mini-golfing. We color and play cards and have tea parties. I let her draw on our apartment walls and they’re still covered in seven years’ worth of stars, trees and clouds of every color. She writes phrases from children’s songs in her loopy block lettering. For a while, I have a modicum of normalcy and routine. Gracie is happy. Kindergarten comes easy for her.

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