Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief by Jessica Hendry Nelson

Author:Jessica Hendry Nelson [Nelson, Jessica Hendry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2023-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

“To posterity!” I said.

“To pasta!” Rory said.

Afterward, we liked to draw pictures. I drew the faces of people he knew: Mommy, Daddy, Jessica, Rory. When I finished, he would have me start over, drawing each face again, their names printed neatly below their chins, and this time no hair. If I drew his daddy’s mustache, he’d get upset and make me erase it. Rory liked to crawl up my shirt, lay his head on my bare stomach, close his eyes, and suck his thumb. Sweet, doe-eyed Rory; he liked this most of all. What to make of a boy so tender, a tuft of hair would send him reeling? His little head on my stomach was an unknowable universe, starred with private wonders.

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