What His Mother Left
He told her about his mother on a Saturday. Not because Saturday was significant — but because it was raining again, the November rain that had no business existing this late in the season and came anyway, and they were in the library — both of them, for the first time, in the library at the same time by choice rather than by accident, she in the left chair and he in the right and a shared silence that had a completely different quality from the managed silences of the first eight weeks. She was reading. He had come in with his own book and sat and read for an hour without incident. This was new and she was trying not to treat it as remarkable by paying it attention, because the moment you paid attention to something fragile it became aware of itself. She had finished her book and was l
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