This Telling (Out of Line collection) by Cheryl Strayed

Author:Cheryl Strayed [Strayed, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

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She could not deny that the baby looked like Jim. By the time she was born, Geraldine had almost forgotten he had any relation to the person who’d been growing inside her, his presence having been so fleeting, so paltry, so optional. But there he was, a grown man overlaid onto the body of this baby—theirs—the entire dark-haired essence of him emanating from her.

She named her Caroline, though she’d been explicitly instructed not to give her a name—it would be the real parents who’d do that, she’d been told. She didn’t care.

“Caroline,” she whispered over and over in the first days, when she’d been allowed to hold her. “Like Caroline Kennedy,” she sputtered to the social worker when she showed up to have Geraldine complete the adoption paperwork. “And also because I want our names to have the same last three letters—ine.”

For this, she got a talking-to. For this, she was yet again reminded that a doctor and his wife desperately wanted a baby. For this, she was made to name what she thought she could give her daughter that would be better than what the doctor and his wife could give her.

She couldn’t name a thing. Not one thing!

She had nothing to give but her daughter.

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