Missing Mom
“Prepare!”
Out of nowhere the call came. The husky elated voice was both familiar and not-familiar. Intimate and startling in my ear so that I was made to realize how much I’d been missing my bossy older sister.
How like Clare, to call with such a pronouncement. Assuming on this weekday morning in October that I’d be home, and awaiting her. That I wasn’t immersed in my work (“Only just writing? That isn’t work”) and had time for her after so many weeks of silence.
Since she’d called me a squatte...r, and run out of the house, Clare had been avoiding me. Sometimes I was furious, and sometimes I was plain hurt, that Clare had so suddenly cut me out of her life. All the years she’d been criticizing me for not living closer to Mom, now I was living in Mom’s very house and Clare had ceased inviting me to hers. I hadn’t seen my niece and nephew in weeks. I hadn’t seen Rob. If I needed to communicate with Clare on something urgent, I called Rob at his office. If, less frequently, Clare needed to communicate with me, it was through Rob.MoreLess
Out of nowhere the call came. The husky elated voice was both familiar and not-familiar. Intimate and startling in my ear so that I was made to realize how much I’d been missing my bossy older sister.
How like Clare, to call with such a pronouncement. Assuming on this weekday morning in October that I’d be home, and awaiting her. That I wasn’t immersed in my work (“Only just writing? That isn’t work”) and had time for her after so many weeks of silence.
Since she’d called me a squatte...r, and run out of the house, Clare had been avoiding me. Sometimes I was furious, and sometimes I was plain hurt, that Clare had so suddenly cut me out of her life. All the years she’d been criticizing me for not living closer to Mom, now I was living in Mom’s very house and Clare had ceased inviting me to hers. I hadn’t seen my niece and nephew in weeks. I hadn’t seen Rob. If I needed to communicate with Clare on something urgent, I called Rob at his office. If, less frequently, Clare needed to communicate with me, it was through Rob.MoreLess
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