Butch Girls Can Fix Anything by Paula Offutt

Author:Paula Offutt [Offutt, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Lesbian, Fiction, Lesbians, General, North Carolina, Asheville (N.C.), Mothers and Daughters
ISBN: 9781932300741
Google: YG3LPQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1932300740
Publisher: Yellow Rose
Published: 2007-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

"DID YOU DO the homework assignment?" Dr. Susan Tower sat down, folding her legs under her.

"Of course. And I think I did it right."

"There is no right or wrong, Kelly. There's just doing it. Show me." She held out her hand and watched her client silently stare back. At last, Kelly reached into her front shirt pocket, pulled out a crumbled slip of paper and gave it to her. Dr. Tower smoothed it and squinted at the writing. "What chicken scratched this out for you?"

"I did it. I did it right-handed. I'll never do it again." Kelly's eyebrows bunched together, her sign she was not joking.

"Why didn't you just use a computer?"

"A what?" Again, she wasn't exactly joking.

"A com...I see. You read it, then. Out loud so I can hear you."

"Doc, you're crazier than I am."

"Yeppers." She waited as Kelly took the paper back and glared at it, as if it were all the paper's fault.

"'Name at least five things I've advanced with since Anna died.' That's the top line."

"What were your first two?"

"I started my own business, and I bought my own property."

"You consider them advancements? Why would they not have advanced if Anna was still alive?"

"For one, I wouldn't be here. For two, she didn't like me to get dirty, you know? She wanted me to go to architect school. I worked the construction job, but only because she said it would show me the basics."

"Sounds like she really ruled your life."

"It does, but it didn't seem like it then. It felt more like she knew better than I did, so I listened to her advice."

"If it were only advice, why wouldn't you have started your own business?"

"Like I said, it's a dirty job. She wouldn't have liked it if I did a blue-collar job."

"She wouldn't have liked it, but would she have stopped you?"

"Most likely. I realized something as I was writing these out. Anna had been telling me what to do for a while. She thought she knew more, she thought she was better, and that's just not right." Kelly shifted so one leg was crossing the other.

"Ah. So perhaps you can say that the mess was all Anna's fault and not yours?"

Silence.

"That's the goal here, Kelly. We aren't out to crucify her. We're out to show that you are not as bad as you think."

"I thought of that, too. If she hadn't died and I found out about it, at least then I could get angry. But with her dead, it didn't feel right, getting angry and blaming her, I mean." She smoothed out the paper on the arm of the chair then folded and refolded it.

"If a person is a bitch, she's as much a bitch dead as she was alive. Anna didn't immediately turn into a saint when she died. She treated you badly. She's worthy of your anger--then and now."

"It just doesn't feel right, blaming her. It's like-- it's like it's sacrilege. You honor the dead; you don't throw stones at them."

"True, we're taught to respect those who have died.

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