Wherever There Is Light by Golden Peter

Author:Golden, Peter [Golden, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The last time Julian cried, he was fifteen years old and crossing the Atlantic on a ship from Hamburg to New York. He was standing on deck in a moonless night with the vast, dark ocean beyond the rail, and wondering how he would survive. His loneliness had enveloped him then, a sense that he was condemned to live without connections, and he’d wept until he was exhausted enough to go below and sleep without dreams.

Now, as Julian sat in his Packard with the defroster blowing and a tightness in his chest, he recalled that rolling ship and looked through the snowmelt on the windshield. A couple walking away from his car toward Sixth Avenue paused in a pool of moonlight and turned to speak to each other, their words spirals of smoke in the ice-clear air. The girl, her hair flowing out from under a knitted slouch hat, stood on her tiptoes to kiss a boy in a duffel coat. That tearful night on the ship Julian had promised himself that he’d never cry again. For thirteen years he’d kept his promise, though watching this moonlit sculpture of lovers ratcheted up the pressure in his chest. Their kiss ended, and as they disappeared around the bend in Minetta Street, Julian rested his forehead on the steering wheel, wrapping his arms around his body, and began to weep like a lonely teenager sailing to an unknown land.

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