Where Were You? by Gus Russo

Author:Gus Russo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2013-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

My father disappeared, and my mother disappeared. We found out later that they had put on some sunglasses and essentially gotten the hell out of Dodge. They went incognito out of Dallas and were gone for quite a while, but we didn’t have contact with them. We didn’t know what was going on. I never had a one-on-one conversation with him about what happened—we never had conversations. I don’t remember Dad ever asking, “How was your day?” We saw each other every day; at six o’clock we were to be at the table because Lifeline was going to start, and the radio was on the table. After we heard the fifteen-minute show, he changed the dial and heard another fifteen-minute show. That was our thirty minutes at the table. But he adored Helen and me and my brother and other sister, and he had us sing for company every night. We always had company, five nights out of seven, and Helen and I would sing anti-Communist ditties: “Put on your thinking cap, and see the big booby trap and the mistaken bait for you and me, and if we don’t awaken we will all be taken, and we’ll never more be free,” instead of “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet.” It was pretty far out there.

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