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“I… I think he is. But honestly, I don’t… really know.” I look away. Inside, I’m starting to realize that I don’t know Stuart. If this damaged him so much, and he can’t even speak

ванной, глядя на отражение в зеркале, убеждаю себя, что сегодня просто такой вечер. И как только мы выберемся из этого дома, все будет по-прежнему хорошо.

Meet us out back,” he says, but does not smile. In the bathroom, I stare at my reflection, tell myself that it’s just tonight. Everything will be fine once we’re out of this house.

But Missus Whitworth has stiffened around the mouth. “Twice a week? Stuart, I had no idea you came to town that often.”

I put my smile back on. From one good subject to the next. “I write the Miss Myrna column in the Jackson Journal. It comes out every Monday.”

– Да уж… Билапс попытался вытереть ноги о проект, но я сказал ему: парень, если у Миссисипи не будет хлопка, то, прах его по

Shee-oot. That Billups tried to wipe his shoes on it and I told him, I said, Chico, if Mississippi don’t have cotton, hell, Mississippi don’t have no

I explain to Alice that the project is a collection of true stories about maids and their experiences waiting on white families. I hand her an envelop

We sit side by side on the sofa. He tries to kiss me again, but I back my head away. I try not to look at the way his sunburn makes his eyes so blue. Or the way the hairs on his arms are golden, bleached.

I wipe down the bedside table, stack the Look magazines on her side, the bridge book she ordered. I straighten the books on Mister Johnny’s. He reads a lot. I pick up To Kill a Mockingbird and turn it over.