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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
fucking parking spot." The woman hauled herself out of the front seat. Her face wrinkled with the effort and her small, old eyes leaked and blinked in the sun. Your father took a step back. He stood for a moment, shoved his hands in his pockets, and crossed the parking lot toward me, the rage fading and his face becoming again the mask it had been since I'd returned from London and, four days before, made my foolish confession-a mask I no longer had a right to question or remove. We exited the structure and pulled into a handicapped spot in front of the emergency room entrance and ran. I held my sunglasses in my left hand and clutched my purse with my right. I had forgotten my sweater. Your father flung his windbreaker over his shoulder and the zipper stung my cheek, the beginnings of retribution, perhaps, for a past that had long ago laid down the invisible blueprint of our future.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
Confessions. For whose benefit besides one's own?
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
Perhaps blame is the way the universe organizes itself around tragedy and loss. Without blame, suffering is random, and that kind of randomness leads to madness
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
Of course it is upon the rubble of ancient history that the present stands.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
It is upon the rubble of ancient history that today stands
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
knew it wasn't the right kind of love, because it required nothing of me. I did not need to worry about keeping it alive or putting it out since it was kept alive quite independently of anything I might or might not do. He would not be someone who demanded anything of me. He would hold on to whatever pieces I offered him, however flawed they might be. It did not bind me to him-somehow, it freed me.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
Children will end up a world away, whether you want them to or not-unaware of the havoc being wreaked upon their histories back home.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
It was pleasure derived not from parental pride, but from gratitude. We had been blessed by the existence on this earth of our three particular children, and we had been assigned a blessed task in keeping you all safe in the world.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
{we} made love, though it was a stretch to call it that. I was making love, I think; he was taking what I made.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
The photo is there in the hatbox, evidence that all the people I love best in the world were once in the same house, at the same time, healthy and whole, celebrating the season together."
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
Where were all the people I loved? I could feel them, flung about, the distance between us a crushing weight that I myself had put there.
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Jan Ellison _ A Small Indiscretion
To LAY. To lie. A lay. A lie. It's a versatile but tricky word, isn't it? To get the lay of the land. To lay down the law. To lay blame. To lie low. To lie down on the job. To let it lie. To lie down and...
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