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translucent sugar. I felt hearty and fleshy and bloody by comparison, feeling the thick heated meat of myself
even in my bathrobe. We were all in our bathrobes, which struck me as funny. Probably we would all get dressed
before opening presents, bowls of Fiddle Faddle on the coffee table. The presents I was giving this year were
merely three-by-five cards with drawings of the items I had intended to give but had had no time to get and so
would get later. This was something of a traditional joke. This year I had drawn them all pictures of sports cars, a
cruel spin on the tradition, since it meant I had given it very little thought and was probably getting them
nothing. I even ran out of three-by-five cards and for my brother’s used a four-by-six, with a larger drawing of a
larger car’and so a larger jokey lie. Arguably, it was better than that unfortunate year when I was twelve and too
old for such a thing but had nonetheless wrapped a candy box jammed full of puppy poop from our dog, Blot,
and given it to R obert, with a little tag that saidMMMMMM ‘ good. Merry Christmas from Blot . ‘Look what the
dog-do did,’ I said at the time, studying his reaction. Which remained one of quiet perplexity.
My mother was now smoking. ‘Should I make breakfast?’ she asked again. My father, who’d been too tired to
talk last night, said, ‘Yeah! Make breakfast! Robert and I want to sit Tassie down and make her tell us about
college.’
‘Yeah, right,eve online isk,’ said Robert. He padded out of the kitchen. ‘I’m taking a shower,’ he called back, claiming our one
bathroom.
‘Sooo ?’ My dad smiled at me. ‘How’s college?’
‘Oh, OK,’ I said inarticulately, but I figured all my dad really needed to hear was positive things in a tempered
tone he could trust. My mother was heating up oil and had taken the cold bowl of latke mixture out and peeled
the Saran Wrap off the top. I started to help her, molding handfuls into plump mounds, the oil and egg white
slimy in my hands.
‘Any boyfriends?’ My father’s eyebrows went up and down, dismissively,buy rs gold, mockingly, letting me know I need
not answer. My mother gave him a look anyway. ‘Bo.’ She said his name like that to warn him of trespass. She
claimed to call him Robert in private, never liking his family nickname but needing within the house to
distinquish between Robert junior and senior.
I liked my dad. Nothing he did ever bothered me, not even his recent drinking,eve isk, which didn’t usually begin until
late afternoon anyway. Still, my unblaming affection had not kept me from feeling the occasional shame of him.
‘Your father’s a farmer’ What does he farm?’ acquaintances back in Troy would sometimes ask. In Dellacrosse
he was barely considered a farmer at all. ‘Nothing,’ I would sometimes reply. ‘He farms nothing. Dadaist
agriculture.’
‘Oh, I get it,’ an East Coast boy with a glass boot of beer might say, or a girl with narrow dark-framed glasses
like the Nana Mouskouri of my mother’s old LPs.
I’m not sure where this small, slightly thrashing, not quite deforming shame had come from. Somehow I had
learned it, perhaps even at Dellacrosse Central, where having a father-farmer should have been no shame at all,
and wasn’t,aoc power leveling, despite my father’s miniature operation. People knew his produce was coveted. And among the kids
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