one had a breakdown at seventeen and tried to run away from home and still lives with them and makes sock monkeys and always cries and one has brought her 'roommate' rachel to thanksgiving for as long as i can remember and teaches spanish and seems so sane and always smiles and one married a girl ten years younger and had two kids and lived on and off welfare and commuted an hour and a half through three states to work each day and smoked and drank and loved people too much and maybe the three too li... no... and maybe the three just as much and before it all came to a boil he grew a tumor on his lung and... sigh
grandparents and wall to wall carpeting and aunts and mothballs and front living rooms and opal and amethyst and iron and my mother's metal work and my grandfathers wood work and regifting and obscure perfumes and linen and eggshell and snow and white paint and everything clean and everything quiet and everything in it's place
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