In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir by Neil White

Author:Neil White
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
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ISBN: 9780061351631
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-06-01T10:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 37

On a crisp fall day, bundled in a heavy jacket, I waited in line behind four other inmates for the pay phone. Linda and the kids had returned to New Orleans from their trip to Oxford and I was anxious to hear about it. Linda accepted the collect call and spoke longingly of the simple life a small town afforded. She had so many old friends in Oxford. And her family was there.

“I’m moving back,” she said.

“What?”

“I’m moving to Oxford.”

I understood her impulse. She would be near friends, in a safe town, out of the French Quarter, away from my mother. Her family could help with Neil and Maggie.

I worried that a twelve-hour round-trip would keep Linda and our kids from visiting me. A move to Oxford didn’t make sense—the kids’ school tuition in New Orleans had been paid; Linda was living rent-free. Another move would be disruptive for Neil and Maggie. Not to mention the obstacles I would face starting over in a town where I had left such a mess.

“I can’t move back there,” I told Linda.

She didn’t answer.

“Why Oxford?” I asked. “What about some other small town?”

There was a long silence. Then Linda said, in a firm voice, “I’m filing for divorce.”

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