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at all,rs gold, and so not completely offensive to the spirit of Mozart, who perhaps did not, like so many of his
colleagues, have to roll about as much in his grave since the advent of electronic things.
Sarah pulled the phone from her bag and slowed the car slightly while she did. ‘Excuse me,’ she said to me.
‘Yeah?’ she said into the phone. All this despite the bumper sticker on her car that read PERHAPS YOU
WOULD DRIVE BETTER WITH THAT CELL PHONE SHOVED UP YOUR ASS. She also had one that said,
IF GOD SPEAKS THROUGH BURNING BUSHES, LET’S BURN BUSH AND LISTEN TO WHAT GOD
SAYS. It was interesting to me that such a woman, one with such rhetorical violence adhered to her car, had
gotten past the adoption agency’s screening processes, whatever they were. She also had a third bumper sticker
that said BORN FINE THE FIRST TIME’though cell phones and Christianity were going to be the very things
to bring her a child. Her fourth was no more promising: BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN IS
HERSELF.
I don’t know why I could hear so clearly’perhaps Sarah was a little deaf and had the volume on everything
turned up high.
‘Sarah, hi, it’s Letitia,’ I heard.
‘Hi, Letitia.’ I believed I wasn’t supposed to listen, so I looked out the window at the bleak snowy landscape; the
sun was low and feeble, dissolving whitely like a lemon drop. Each town we passed through had a Dairy Queen,
with customers lined up, even in winter. When I looked back at Sarah I saw her powdered, thinning skin like a
crepe, with the same light freckles as a crepe, her gnarly-knuckled hand, arthritic from chopping herbs,eve online isk, going
through her spiky russet hair, knocking back her scarf. How did her stand-up hair defy not just gravity but even
the additional weight of a scarf’ Why did my own hair always lie flat, defeated by atmospheric physics of all
sorts, unimproved even by the most widely advertised of sticky gels’ Education had not entirely elevated my
concerns in life. It had probably not even assisted my analyses of these concerns, though that was the most I
could hope for. I was too fresh from childhood. Subconsciously, my deepest brain still a cupboard of fairy tales, I
suppose I believed that if a pretty woman was no longer pretty she had done something bad to deserve it. I had a
young girl’s belief that this kind of negative aging would never come to me. Death would come to me’I knew
this from reading British poetry. But the drying, hunching, blanching, hobbling, fading, fattening, thinning,buy wow gold,
slowing’ I would just not let that happen tomoi.
Sarah switched ears, making it harder for me to hear, but then switched back and slowed to let a convoy of trucks
pass. I could hear Letitia. ‘If this doesn’t work out with Amber, there are babies on the international market.
We’ve had a lot of luck with South America. Paraguay has opened up again,eve online isk, and other countries, too. And
they’re not all brown there, either. There’s been a lot of German influence, and some of these kids are beautiful,
very blond, or blue-eyed, or both.’
‘Well, thanks for the info,’ said Sarah brusquely. ‘Get back to me on Amber.’ Letitia then said something I
couldn’t make out, and Sarah said quickly, ‘Gotta run’there’s an ice patch ahead,’ and snapped the phone shut.
‘The babies of Nazis,’ Sarah said, shaking her head. ‘They’re hawking Nazi babies. Racially superior.
Unbelievable.’ She raked her fingers yet again through the bright desert grass of her hair. I didn’t ask her how a
tiny baby could be a Nazi. What did I know’ Maybe it could. ‘Blue eyes!’ she cried. ‘The human race has really
come a long way!’ She shook her head again, this time with a horsey, nasal exhalation of disgust. ‘I knew
someone in cooking school who was a blue-eyed Jew. He said his sperm was in great demand at the local sperm
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