The Theory of Opposites by Allison Winn Scotch

Author:Allison Winn Scotch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary
ISBN: 9780989499002
Publisher: Camellia
Published: 2013-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Subject: re: How r u?

Dear Aunt Willa:

I might be 12, but I know a cry for help when I read one. I told Uncle Shawn he’s an asshole and should send you a note. Also, I have had a girlfriend named Mara Goldstein, who just got braces and changed her French kissing style, so I broke up with her. Speaking of Goldsteins, I am exploring Judaism. What do you know about being a MOT? (That’s member-of-the-tribe, in case you didn’t know.)

Email from: Willa Chandler-Golden

To: Raina Chandler-Farley

Subject: Our mother

Raina — I’m 99% sure that mom is now a lesbian. We should probably talk.

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DARING YOURSELF TO A BETTER LIFE!

By Vanessa Pines and Willa Chandler

STEP TWO: RESIST INERTIA

Summary: This might be the scariest dare of all: to refuse to let life carry you along in its stream, to plant an anchor in that stream and say, “enough.” “Enough” of letting life whiz by, “enough” of accepting just okay for yourself, “enough” of refusing to be bigger than you think you can be. Giving in to inertia is the most natural, most innate human tendency, so we cannot promise that this second step will come easily. But when it does, you’ll feel it, deep in your soul, deep inside of your heart, that you — little old you — might just have the ability to change everything.

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I immediately regret emailing Nicky, but Vanessa had urged me to, or at least sort of. It’s part two of the book. Dare Yourself!

“Dare yourself to resist inertia!” she implored tonight, as we headed to Safeco Field to watch the Mariners play the A’s. She didn’t specifically say to email Nicky (or indirectly Shawn), but if she scoffed (or caught wind of the email, which I actually really hoped she wouldn’t), I had an answer: I haven’t exactly fought for anything in my life before, so if I’m going to fight for something, maybe it should be my husband. That’s resisting inertia. That’s rewriting my master plan: after all, the first time, I just let Shawn walk away. I let him draft the stupid rules of our intermission, and I didn’t make a peep, didn’t put up an argument, didn’t throw a fucking pan at his head and tell him that we’d taken vows and this was the stupidest goddamn idea I’d ever heard. We were Shilla, for Christ’s sake! Maybe now, my version of resisting inertia was fighting to get my husband back. So when Vanessa made a bathroom stop at a bar in Pioneer Square, I pressed “send” to Nicky.

Take that, inertia!

Vanessa got us tickets when our concierge mentioned a singles mixer at the stadium in section 210. Evidently, every single person in our near vicinity would be available and looking. I protested my involvement but Vanessa said: “Dare yourself, Willa! Jesus, if you end up sharing Cracker Jacks with a hot guy for a few hours, will you actually die of cardiac arrest?”

And I sucked on my cheeks and said, “No, I actually won’t.”

“Great, because I wasn’t sure.

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