The guy in the cowboy hat? Signing that stack of papers, across from me at the conference table? That’s Jackson Howard Sr. “Well, hot damn, looks like we got ourselves a deal!” If you’re going to understand, I need to go back further. Still don’t understand? That’s because I’m not telling it right. Drew wasn’t lying when he said he’d always want me. Tell me about it.Īnyway-believe it or not-the real problem wasn’t another woman. So I can see that you’re wondering what happened. I guess after two years, it kind of rubs off. What’s that? You think I sound like Drew? That’s what Delores says-that he’s infected me with his profanity. Apparently happily ever after only lasts two years.ĭon’t check the title. She could’ve been a prostitute.ĭid you think Drew and I were going to ride off into the sunset? Live happily ever after? Join the club. He has an attractive stripper to take care of him. Who knows? Let’s not concern ourselves with him too much. You’re probably wondering why I’m here, back in Greenville, Ohio, all alone. See that woman over there? On the swing, in this empty playground?īut not really. The one that I had planned to share with Drew forever. Unexpected devastation changes you.Īnd I mourn the old me. Impenetrable, all the way through.Īsk anyone who’s survived an earthquake at midnight, or a house fire that wipes out everything that matters. I don’t need to pretend anymore, because now I’m granite. And either you kick hard to keep up, or he rolls over you and leaves you behind with a face full of sand. A façade.ĭealing with Drew Evans is like swimming into one of those rogue waves at the beach. It’s only afterward that the caterpillar realizes it was all worth it.Īnd that’s what I feel like right now. It doesn’t understand that it’s changing. When the caterpillar builds its cocoon, it doesn’t know what’s happening. They start out as one thing, but end up something else entirely.Įveryone always looks at butterflies and thinks, “How lovely.” But no one ever thinks about what they had to go through to become what they are. What fascinated me most were species that transform into a whole new being. In high school, biology was my favorite subject.
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