So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)
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So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)
Your father wouldn’t give me my freedom, she would say, and so I had to go to court and get it that way.…
could not tell whether the heavy feeling in my chest had to do with what might happen or with what had already happened and was irremediable.
good blood and a good disposition. One
give way to it as if it was a sexual temptation. The house we lived in has changed hands several times, and some fairly recent owner sheared off the whole back part—the pantry, the back stairs, the kitchen, the
Daybreak was a comfort. The birds. A rooster crowing. It meant that time existed. At night everything stood still. The milkman, clinking his bottles. People went about
through the yearbook carefully from cover to cover looking for him. He isn’t in any group picture or on any list of names.
Any more than a person who hasn’t had a car door slammed on his fingers knows what that is
When his father was Cletus’s age he was milking fifteen cows morning and night.
New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.