Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

Author:Ann Patchett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Non-Fiction, Biography
ISBN: 9780060572143
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

WHEN THE PHONE RANG at seven it came as a real surprise. It felt like we had been asleep for fifteen minutes. Lucy’s friends were famous for calling at three and four in the morning, hours I perceived to be unreasonable, but they didn’t call at seven. “It’s for you,” she cried sleepily.

“We’re going to Tanzania,” the philanthropists’ adviser said. “The car is downstairs.”

“How did you get this number?”

“Don’t worry about packing. Don’t worry about anything. Just walk out the door. I’ve bought your clothes for you. I’ve arranged for a passport.”

“I didn’t tell you where I was staying. How do you know where I am?”

“Just come downstairs. I’m in the car. I’m right outside. We’re ready to go.”

“You’re bluffing,” I said. “You don’t know where I am.”

“I will always know where you are,” he said gravely. I hung up the phone.

“That’s very creepy,” Lucy said. She was still holding the extension.

Immediately the phone started to ring like an alarm clock and I told Lucy not to pick it up. In fact my phone would ring for months after that, sometimes every hour on the hour until I finally unplugged it and put it in the closet.

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