Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

Author:Elizabeth Strout [Strout, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

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It was seven o’clock by the time William pulled into the driveway.

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He came—almost—bounding into the house, he had taken his mask off on the way to the house, and he said, “Lucy! She’s wonderful! Lucy, she loves me!” This is what he said, with his big brown eyes positively shining, and oh dear God I was so glad.

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I said I would cook that night so that he could tell me everything. And so he sat at the table and spoke more rapidly than I could ever remember him speaking. “I have a sister!” He kept saying this, and shaking his head. “Lucy, I have a sister.” He told me they had met on the steps of the library, that they recognized each other immediately “not only because we were the only two old people on the steps” but because they recognized each other. Even with their masks on. “The minute I saw her, I thought, It’s you!” And he told me that she had said the exact same thing. And so they took their lawn chairs and sat on the large area of grass in front of the library, and they talked and talked and talked.

Lois said that she had gone to the university, that all her kids had gone there, and that her eldest grandson had graduated from there two years ago June. She said that she’d met her husband there, and then he had gone to Tufts for dental school. She said that her youngest brother, Dave, ran the Trask farm—the potato farm—she had grown up on, with his son, Joe. And then she asked about William’s daughters, she was especially kind about poor Bridget being stuck with her mother’s loser boyfriend, she had been so nice about that, and when William told her about Chrissy’s miscarriages, he said to me, “Lucy! She got tears in her eyes! She said she had miscarried twice and she felt just awful for Chrissy.”

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