Tatiana shuddered briefly, to shake off the memories. We’re going to become scrambled eggs if we don’t start driving.” “Would you like to live in Arizona, the land of the small spring?” “Now I know you’re telling me fairy tales. “What do they wear in this Arizona in the winter?” Dasha asks Alexander. In December, all I will wear for cover is long-sleeve shirt.” Here, yes, it’s over ninety degrees now, but in December, near Christmas, it will be seventy. “In spring all wildflowers bloom to life.
I wouldn’t want to live here, there’s nothing but cacti.” “Your son?” Vikki leaned over and kissed him. Sitting close against Vikki with Anthony cradled on her lap, Tatiana said, “Quite beautiful, no?” He climbed onto the car, onto Tatiana’s lap, dusty, hands grimy, and nuzzled his head into her chest. “Very good!” Vikki said, her eyes, her teeth gleaming at Tatiana.Īnthony did not find a snake but did become exhausted by his search efforts. She got out a bottle of Coke from her bag and passed it to Vikki, saying, “‘Drink Coca Cola. Now, if you had your way with that line, it would read, ‘bag day for more pep.’ Do you see the difference?”
I think it reads, ‘Planter’s peanuts: a bag a day for more pep.’” “What does the ad for them read in Times Square? We passed it the other day.” But seriously though, Tania, you eat Planter’s peanuts, don’t you?” For your next birthday,” said Vikki, leaning back and taking a drink, “I’m going to buy you a book on mothering, a book on cooking, and also some ‘a’s and ‘the’s. We take snake back to New York and cook it.” “Anthony, you find snake, you let me know. “Why do you do that? You call out my name, as if that’s enough for me to know exactly what you want. Tatiana said nothing, just stared at Vikki. I want small snake.” Anthony was verbal for a boy of two.
Do you know that snakes swallow their food whole?” “Anthony,” called Vikki, wiping the perspiration off her face.
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