“There are definite, long-term details that you
know about people, that you’ve always known about people in your life from
every early on. You keep them in separate drawers from the daily-used details.”
Her mother was trying to explain away their
departure while developing a system for the bags of clothing spread out on the
floor. Giordana took her time to make up the soft bed, so that she wouldn’t be
asked to do more than that,
Her mother continued.
“You block them out because you can’t even
imagine that they’re important or you don’t think a time will ever come when
you have to face them.”
She was working hard on this one.
“You expect that the
problems in the bottom drawer or in the back of the closet or wherever you’ve
hidden them will stay there forever. That they won’t ever apply to you.”
“Like our winter coats that we left with dad?”
“Like Dad,”
her mother said.
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