A Necessary End by Nick Taylor

Author:Nick Taylor [Taylor, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family
Publisher: Jones Street Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

My troubles were over. My parents were safely back in the United States, and they weren’t going back to Mexico. I knew it, if they didn’t. They couldn’t afford it, for one thing. I had spent most of their money on the apartment.

Barbara and I returned to New York the next day. Barbara’s mother told her we were leaving too soon, that my parents needed emotional support in addition to a place to live. But we had spent ourselves. Neither of us had the patience for a hand-holding transitional term.

That Monday I spent an hour on the phone talking Dad through opening a checking account at the bank in the nearby shopping center. He had the money from their Mexican accounts, and Mom had surprised me by digging in her purse and producing four hundred dollars that the owner of Chapala’s newsstand had given her for the old Plymouth. I explained to a sympathetic woman at the bank that he’d be coming, then told him how to get there and what to say. Barbara, meanwhile, sent Mom a birthday package of clothes by Federal Express.

Six days later, I was aboard a small boat sailing from Bermuda to the Azores. A friend of mine was taking his boat home to England. I love sailing, but the main appeal of the two-week ocean passage was the relief from concern for my parents that the adventure would provide. I assumed they would reorient quickly to Fort Myers. Mom’s first letter had encouraged me, and I sailed with a dear conscience.

“Dear Kids,” she wrote.

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