My Captain America by Megan Margulies

My Captain America by Megan Margulies

Author:Megan Margulies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2020-08-04T00:00:00+00:00


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“I heard you have a boyfriend now?” Daddy Joe asked me, not taking his eyes off his Intimate Confessions cover, now with bright green paint in the title.

“I guess.”

He looked at me. “You guess? Does Joe need to talk to him?”

“We just started dating,” I said shyly, leaving out the confusing math of how many months we were just fooling around, plus the time it took to start falling in love.

“Are you getting married?”

“Oh my god, stop.”

“Is he Jewish?”

“Adopted, but raised by a Jewish family.”

“Uh-huh,” he said, and nodded. He was phobic of religion after growing up in a conservative household. “You know, I’d like to live with the goys and be buried with the Yids.”

Daddy Joe sat back in his chair, putting down his paintbrush. “In fact, I’ve been thinking about it, and I think I’m ready to go,” he said.

I forced a smile. A heaviness settled in my stomach, and I looked away from him, pretending to study the artwork on the walls. He was an old man, but the thought of him dying and needing to be buried seemed impossible. He was our family’s sun and our moon—he was our universe. Things that important didn’t just disappear.

“Can you do a Captain America sketch I can bring back for Jake?” I asked, steering him away from his conversational detour.

“Sure!” he exclaimed, taking the bait. “Should I write something on it?”

“Yeah,” I said, my stomach lightening again.

“Yes,” he corrected me, reaching for a clean sheet of paper.



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