![]() Stood there in the kitchen, holding the picture in her small, pale hand, her long graceful neck tilted a little to one side as if the image she was looking at contained some great and troubling mystery, though really it was just the five of us, scrunched together in the teacup ride. When the phys ed teacher said, OK, Henry, you play with the blues, all the other guys on the blue team would groan.įor the most part, my mother never mentioned my father, or the woman he was married to now, or her son, or the baby, but once by mistake, when I left a picture out on the table that he’d given me, of the five of us-the year before, when I went with them to Disney-she had studied it for at least a minute. Why not? Baseball was a sore spot for me. ![]() Then he’d pull a pack of baseball cards out of his pocket and lay them on the table in the booth, to split between Richard and me. ![]() ![]() Saturday nights when my father picked me up to take us all out to dinner at Friendly’s, he was always wanting me to sit next to her in the backseat. ![]()
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