Authors: Constance C. Greene
Other Plans (31 page)
Maybe a good book would help. He felt a strong urge to get into his camouflage suit. Then he thought better of it and went to his father's closet where his clothes were still hanging.
“I can't bear to get rid of them, John,” his mother had told him. Every time she opened the door, she said, the odor of his father was so strong, so evocative, that she could pretend, briefly, that he was still there, just around the corner, coming up the walk. That nothing had happened. Nothing had changed.â¦
He put on an old jacket, one his father had owned for many years and, although he knew the jacket didn't fit, having tried it on many times, he loved it.
“Rest assured I will always love you,” he said in a loud voice to the empty room. “Rest assured, Dad.” Nobody else's father talked like that.
He buried his face in the sleeve and, for the first time, he cried.
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Copyright © 1985 by Constance C. Greene
ISBN: 978-1-4976-9377-7
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