Americashire: A Field Guide to a Marriage by Jennifer Richardson

Author:Jennifer Richardson [Richardson, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2013-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Right before Christmas there was time for one final celebration, a lamb roast at Rupert and Ralph’s flat during which they confided they, too, had gained weight since they started weekending in the country. It seemed our metabolisms, starved of urban stress and toil, had gone into hibernation. Folds of flesh now revealed themselves at the slightest bend, and, when I sat, accordion pleats materialized around my torso. I took to grasping my sides and kneading them as I attempted to locate ribs, kind of like that piano song where you roll your knuckles back and forth across the black keys. It’s as if I was still convincing myself that, yes, I was now quite fat. Who needed a pregnancy for that?

In any case, diets and further consideration of motherhood could wait. We were celebrating that I had passed my driving test on the first try, much to D’s surprise and in spite of the fact that my driving instructor was fired by the Automobile Association the day before, as it turns out for threatening to “thump” another instructor, not his teaching skills. I would need the driver’s license, as I had accepted the job I had been offered and started in the new year.

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